Glen Newey

Glen Newey is professor of practical philosophy at Leiden University.

In the LRB Archive:

• Utopia in Texas: Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’ · 19 January 2017

  • Utopia by Thomas More, edited by George M. Logan, translated by Robert M. Adams
  • Utopia by Thomas More, translated by Gilbert Burnet

• The Getaway Car: Machiavelli · 21 January 2016

  • Machiavellian Democracy by John McCormick
  • Machiavelli in the Making by Claude Lefort, translated by Michael Smith
  • Redeeming ‘The Prince’: The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece by Maurizio Viroli

• Unlike a Scotch Egg: Hate Speech · 5 December 2013

  • The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron

• You have £2000, I have a kidney: Morals and Markets · 21 June 2012

  • What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
  • How Much Is Enough?: The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky

• Sheep don’t read barcodes: ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ · 22 March 2012

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Short Cuts: Murdoch · 28 July 2011

• Mere Life or More Life?: Bad Arguments · 14 July 2011

  • Great Books, Bad Arguments: ‘Republic’, ‘Leviathan’ and ‘The Communist Manifesto’ by W.G. Runciman
  • Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy by Bonnie Honig

• Limits of Civility: Walls · 17 March 2011

  • Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Wendy Brown

• Diary: Life with WikiLeaks · 6 January 2011

• Is it really so wrong?: Evil · 23 September 2010

  • On Evil by Terry Eagleton
  • A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen, translated by Kerri Pierce

• Bendy Rulers: Amartya Sen · 28 January 2010

  • The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen

• More ‘out’ than ‘on’: Chris Mullin’s Diaries · 27 August 2009

  • A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin by Chris Mullin

• Ruck in the Carpet: Political Morality · 9 July 2009

  • Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss

• Gloves Off: Torture · 29 January 2009

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts by Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue
  • Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
  • Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law by Philippe Sands

• About as Useful as a String Condom: Bum Decade for the Royals · 23 January 2003

• How do you like your liberalism: fat or thin?: John Gray · 7 June 2001

  • Two Faces of Liberalism by John Gray

• A Narrow Band of Liberties: global order · 25 January 2001

  • Profit over People: Neo-Liberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky
  • Acts of Aggression: Policing ‘Rogue’ States by Noam Chomsky and Ramsey Clark, edited by Edward Said
  • The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy by Noam Chomsky
  • The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo by Noam Chomsky

• Effing the Ineffable: Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover · 25 November 1999

  • Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover

• From Soixante-Huit to Soixante-Neuf: Slack-Sphinctered Pachyderm · 29 April 1999

  • Collected Papers: Technology, War and Fascism by Herbert Marcuse, edited by Douglas Kellner
  • The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy after the Holocaust by Norman Geras

• Albino Sea-Cucumber: The Long March of Cornelius Castoriadis · 5 February 1998

  • The Imaginary Institution of Society by Cornelius Castoriadis
  • Les Carrefours de Labyrinthe: Fait et a faire by Cornelius Castoriadis
  • The Castoriadis Reader edited by David Ames Curtis

• Gassing and Bungling · 8 May 1997

  • Between Facts and Norms by Jürgen Habermas, translated by William Rehg

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