Hugo Drochon
@hdrochon.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Theory @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Author of 'Nietzsche's Great Politics' (Princeton 2016) and 'Elites and Democracy' (forthcoming Princeton 2026)
Pinned
Elites and democracy
www.lse.ac.uk
Looking forward to giving a taste of my forthcoming book Elites and Democracy at the LSE European Institute tomorrow lunchtime!🍾
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Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, July 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, July 2025
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So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Roberte Hamayon, le chamanisme et au-delà : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
Par Antoine Dhulster. Voyage en archives à la découverte de la surnature et du monde des esprits des peuples de l'Asie, en hommage à Roberte Hamayon. Cette anthropologue disparue le 18 mars 2025 était...
www.radiofrance.fr
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
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Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
September 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
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Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956
www.cambridge.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
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Authoritarians destroy institutions, liberals build them. At @theunpopulist.net I am working with v. smart colleagues to do just that in a post-Trump, post-authoritarian world. @andycraig.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com and I discuss. www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig
Liberals will have to rebuild the institutions of governance and accountability that Trump is destroying and The UnPopulist plans to lead the way
www.theunpopulist.net
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Authoritarians destroy institutions, liberals build them. At @theunpopulist.net I am working with v. smart colleagues to do just that in a post-Trump, post-authoritarian world. @andycraig.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com and I discuss. www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
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My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
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Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social), Straße, Platz, Palast: Zur Architektur demokratischer Räume (@suhrkamp.de, 2026; #skystorians) www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jan-wer...
Straße, Platz, Palast. Buch von Jan-Werner Müller (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Menschen gehen auf die Straße. Die Öffentlichkeit wird als Marktplatz der Ideen... | Buch von Jan-Werner Müller versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
www.suhrkamp.de
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social), Straße, Platz, Palast: Zur Architektur demokratischer Räume (@suhrkamp.de, 2026; #skystorians) www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jan-wer...
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Alice Gregory, The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star (@newyorker.com): www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Alice Gregory, The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star (@newyorker.com): www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Amina Hassani (@amiha.bsky.social), La justice du capital : Quand les multinationales (dé)font la loi (@lafabrique.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) lafabrique.fr/la-justice-d...
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Amina Hassani (@amiha.bsky.social), La justice du capital : Quand les multinationales (dé)font la loi (@lafabrique.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) lafabrique.fr/la-justice-d...
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My review of Ryan Balot's 'Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws' now published by Sehepunkte (in English); while I wasn't sure about the book's overall claim about the dialogue's philosophical coherence, I found much valuable analysis in it. www.sehepunkte.de/2025/11/4010...
SEHEPUNKTE - Rezension von: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws - Ausgabe 25 (2025), Nr. 11
Rezension über Ryan K. Balot: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024, XIV + 425 S., ISBN 978-0-1976-4722-6, GBP 78,00
www.sehepunkte.de
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My review of Ryan Balot's 'Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws' now published by Sehepunkte (in English); while I wasn't sure about the book's overall claim about the dialogue's philosophical coherence, I found much valuable analysis in it. www.sehepunkte.de/2025/11/4010...
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We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who really runs Britain?
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
Book review: Born to Rule
We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who runs Britain?
newhumanist.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who really runs Britain?
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
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Born to Rule on The Economist’s Top 10 Politics and Current Affairs books of the year 🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.economist.com/culture/2024...
www.economist.com/culture/2024...
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies
www.economist.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Born to Rule on The Economist’s Top 10 Politics and Current Affairs books of the year 🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.economist.com/culture/2024...
www.economist.com/culture/2024...
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Foucault's Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/16/f... - building on earlier work, and discussing a couple of other bits of evidence about the changing nature of Foucault's plans for this series from the mid-1970s until his 1984 death
Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality
Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wiss…
progressivegeographies.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Foucault's Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/16/f... - building on earlier work, and discussing a couple of other bits of evidence about the changing nature of Foucault's plans for this series from the mid-1970s until his 1984 death
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In case you missed it, a recording of our Nov 10 event with Laura Field on her book Furious Minds is now available on our YouTube channel. Check it out!
@lkatfield.bsky.social @libankerdc.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5h...
@lkatfield.bsky.social @libankerdc.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5h...
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
YouTube video by Illiberalism Studies Program
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In case you missed it, a recording of our Nov 10 event with Laura Field on her book Furious Minds is now available on our YouTube channel. Check it out!
@lkatfield.bsky.social @libankerdc.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5h...
@lkatfield.bsky.social @libankerdc.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5h...
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Next week, Nov 19 at 6:30 pm EST, Amanda Rubin joins the Leo Baeck Institute for a free, in-person talk on Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, which collected the dreams of witnesses of the rise of Nazism, examining the effects of authoritarianism on the unconscious mind. buff.ly/4uo26y9
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Next week, Nov 19 at 6:30 pm EST, Amanda Rubin joins the Leo Baeck Institute for a free, in-person talk on Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, which collected the dreams of witnesses of the rise of Nazism, examining the effects of authoritarianism on the unconscious mind. buff.ly/4uo26y9
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Thrilled to have Georgios Varouxakis's fantastic new book finally in my hands! 🎉
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Thrilled to have Georgios Varouxakis's fantastic new book finally in my hands! 🎉
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Senghor: Writings on Politics," which brings Léopold Sédar Senghor’s most vital essays, speeches, and political writings to English-language readers for the first time. It's edited & translated by Yohann C. Ripert. buff.ly/lCkuIeY
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Senghor: Writings on Politics," which brings Léopold Sédar Senghor’s most vital essays, speeches, and political writings to English-language readers for the first time. It's edited & translated by Yohann C. Ripert. buff.ly/lCkuIeY
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observer.co.uk/culture/book... wonderful review of new edition of #SeamusHeaney #poetry - example of the review as an art form in itself
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer
Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
observer.co.uk/culture/book... wonderful review of new edition of #SeamusHeaney #poetry - example of the review as an art form in itself
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Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘Europe is the core – America joined as an offshoot’: the historian challenging what ‘the west’ means
Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Really enjoyed this interview with The Guardian's Philip Oltermann:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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So happy that "The Legacy of the Enlightenment", which I co-edited with colleagues in Turin and the wonderful Fondazione 1563, is now available open access. Inside, also my chapter on the Neapolitan Enlightenment's theory of rights and the making of liberalism.
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The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Rights, Constitutions, Equality
Recent historiography often portrays the Enlightenment as the intellectual source of modern evils and projects contemporary biases on Enlightenment thinkers. Discussions on the legacy of the Enlighten...
en.olschki.it
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So happy that "The Legacy of the Enlightenment", which I co-edited with colleagues in Turin and the wonderful Fondazione 1563, is now available open access. Inside, also my chapter on the Neapolitan Enlightenment's theory of rights and the making of liberalism.
en.olschki.it/libro/978882...
en.olschki.it/libro/978882...
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Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges.
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Is there a future for Europe beyond defence, security, and geopolitical competition? The #Humanities can help us build an alternative future for Europe in an age of #planetary challenges.
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
My article is open access in
Comprendre - Revue de politique de la culture: comprendre.online/index.php/co...
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Another "special operation" or a Marx Brothers-style farce in which competing thieves tried to outwit one another? I wrote a long read about the curious disappearance of rare Russian books from European libraries www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Another "special operation" or a Marx Brothers-style farce in which competing thieves tried to outwit one another? I wrote a long read about the curious disappearance of rare Russian books from European libraries www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
February 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...