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Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter (2024)
Journal Article

Policing is broadly legitimate – even while imperfect and in need of reform. This axiom of liberal political theory and practice is shaken by movements like Black Lives Matter, which confront and expose carceral violence as the routine, deadly edge o... Read More about Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter.

Review: Who needs a world view? (2022)
Journal Article

Co-authored with James Evans (james.evanst@petcheyacademy.org.uk). Review of: Who needs a world view? Raymond Geuss Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2020, 208pp., ISBN 9780674245938

Abolishing The Police (2021)
Book

“This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people having a conversation about abolishing the police and prison state. This must be what it felt like when people were talking about abolishing slavery.” – Patrisse C... Read More about Abolishing The Police.

Resisting Liberal Self-Deception (2019)
Journal Article

Review of Political Self-Deception by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti & A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil by Candice Delmas.

Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism (2018)
Journal Article

Its critics call it ‘feminism-as-crime-control’, or ‘Governance Feminism’, diagnosing it as a pernicious form of identity politics. Its advocates call it taking sexual violence seriously – by which they mean wielding the power of the state to ‘punish... Read More about Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism.

The Criminal Is Political: Policing Politics in Real Existing Liberalism (2017)
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The familiar irony of ‘real existing socialism’ is that it never was. Socialist ideals were used to legitimize regimes that fell far short of realizing those ideals—indeed, that violently repressed anyone who tried to realize them. This paper suggest... Read More about The Criminal Is Political: Policing Politics in Real Existing Liberalism.

The political is political: Conformity and the illusion of dissent in contemporary political philosophy (2015)
Journal Article