1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (QM Political Thought) & Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー (東京大学 | UTokyo), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first such piece our journal! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

2/2 Themes include freedom (as independence), universal & fundamental rights, chattel slavery, common law, the work of John Pocock, the global turn, contextualism, liberty in international relations, the battle & excavation of ideas, the possibilities & perils of AI, & much more!

"I have always wanted not merely to survey such battlefields but to join the battle myself": This conversation between Quentin Skinner and Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー is full of insights, and I'm thrilled that it has been published Global Intellectual History tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This discussion article is now open access until September. Find it here: tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

The Korean edition of Istvan Hont's Politics in Commercial Society (which took me ages to translate) is finally coming out, in two weeks; the front cover has arrived.

This state of the field essay is super helpful, especially re the collapsing of two historiographical streams: liberalism and empire vs decolonialisation/anticolonialism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…