Jack Wilkinson
@jackwilkinson.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social | Working on democratic theory, social epistemology, and solidarity.
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If you're around London next week, consider joining us for this workshop on alternatives to capitalism! Details below👇
Alternatives to Capitalism Workshop | Vincent Harting | Thursday 11 December 2025 11:00 - 16:00 | STICERD Event
An event from the Cohesive Capitalism Event series organised by STICERD
sticerd.lse.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If you're around London next week, consider joining us for this workshop on alternatives to capitalism! Details below👇
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Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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Truly and deeply honoured
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The Deutscher Prize on X: "🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat" / X
🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat
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November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Truly and deeply honoured
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I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions.
AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.
AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.
AI fact-checks may be the best way to reduce Republicans’ engagement with online political misinformation finds Isolde Hegemann of @lsegovernment.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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AI fact-checks may be the best way to reduce Republicans’ engagement with online political misinformation | USAPP
AI fact-checking can be more effectiveds in reducing the likelihood that Republican social media users will share false information online.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions.
AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.
AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.
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Thanks to Daniel James (TU Dresden) for a great talk on racialized oppression, followed by a great exchange. An absolutely brilliant research seminar.
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Thanks to Daniel James (TU Dresden) for a great talk on racialized oppression, followed by a great exchange. An absolutely brilliant research seminar.
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🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
www.lse.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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From political philosophy to political proposals via the social sciences. A lively debate, launching Tom Parr's new book. With Becky Clark (LSE), David Axelsen (Essex) and @brunoleipold.com .
October 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
From political philosophy to political proposals via the social sciences. A lively debate, launching Tom Parr's new book. With Becky Clark (LSE), David Axelsen (Essex) and @brunoleipold.com .
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.
Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.
June 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.
Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.
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I always knew that one day I’d be able to do something with this meme
April 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I always knew that one day I’d be able to do something with this meme
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My theory: the relative decline in power of a certain kinda woke humanities set (post-2020) happened in some part because when a crisis came and America was relatively receptive they just had no workable policies. "Abolish the police" just weren't it, but it was the only slogan that broke through...
I do think that is true, their cultural influence is on the decline. I kinda feel they had the opposite of a Chicago-School moment. Their crisis came and they had no workable ideas to implement therein, and so that was that really.
April 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
My theory: the relative decline in power of a certain kinda woke humanities set (post-2020) happened in some part because when a crisis came and America was relatively receptive they just had no workable policies. "Abolish the police" just weren't it, but it was the only slogan that broke through...
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Really enjoyed talking about Marx and the Paris Commune for this week's episode of Past Present Future
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today the definitive 19th-century revolutionary and his definitive revolution: David talks to historian @brunoleipold.com about why Karl Marx thought the Paris Commune in 1871 was the model of a workers' uprising.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today the definitive 19th-century revolutionary and his definitive revolution: David talks to historian @brunoleipold.com about why Karl Marx thought the Paris Commune in 1871 was the model of a workers' uprising.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Really enjoyed talking about Marx and the Paris Commune for this week's episode of Past Present Future
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Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social is organising an exciting conference on 10th June about AI, consiousness, and morality. Register here: www.eventbrite.de/e/lse-worksh...
April 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social is organising an exciting conference on 10th June about AI, consiousness, and morality. Register here: www.eventbrite.de/e/lse-worksh...
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@jackwilkinson.bsky.social told me about this saying today. It will stay with me for a while.
Russian expression: “It’s a lot easier to turn an aquarium into fish soup than it is to turn fish soup into an aquarium.”
April 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
@jackwilkinson.bsky.social told me about this saying today. It will stay with me for a while.
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about to crack this case wide open
March 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
about to crack this case wide open
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A slightly experimental blogpost. More of a scrapbook if anything.
"The Gramsci of Life"
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsc...
"The Gramsci of Life"
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February 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A slightly experimental blogpost. More of a scrapbook if anything.
"The Gramsci of Life"
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsc...
"The Gramsci of Life"
www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsc...
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Wrote a short piece for the @princetonupress.bsky.social Ideas blog on one of the themes of my book press.princeton.edu/ideas/marx-a...
Marx and socialist anti-politics
Socialists believe in economic emancipation from the domination and unfreedom of capitalism. But realising that monumental economic goal invariably and inescapably requires socialists to think about w...
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January 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Wrote a short piece for the @princetonupress.bsky.social Ideas blog on one of the themes of my book press.princeton.edu/ideas/marx-a...
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Submit a paper for the LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: ‘What’s Next for Feminism?’. Deadline for abstracts March 1, conference May 29-30. Organized by our great PhDs Julia Costet and Nadia Ma @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...
‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory
The LSE’s Department of Government in collaboration with the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) is pleased to announce its first conference in Feminist, Gender and Queer theory. In a context...
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January 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Submit a paper for the LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: ‘What’s Next for Feminism?’. Deadline for abstracts March 1, conference May 29-30. Organized by our great PhDs Julia Costet and Nadia Ma @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Our research seminar kicks off this Thursday at 4pm with a talk by Maxime Lepoutre (Reading) on geo-engineering. All welcome. www.reading.ac.uk/politics-int... @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Dr Maxime Lepoutre – Department of Politics and International Relations
Dr Maxime Lepoutre, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations.
www.reading.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Our research seminar kicks off this Thursday at 4pm with a talk by Maxime Lepoutre (Reading) on geo-engineering. All welcome. www.reading.ac.uk/politics-int... @lsegovernment.bsky.social
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Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...
January 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...
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I have a short piece on the imperative mandate in this just released volume on democracy from current/former fellows at The New Institute. Its fully open access and available here: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6...
December 12, 2024 at 8:20 AM
I have a short piece on the imperative mandate in this just released volume on democracy from current/former fellows at The New Institute. Its fully open access and available here: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6...
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Our PhD student @yusufimaadkhan.com presenting on genealogical anxiety to our weekly POTY research seminar
December 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Our PhD student @yusufimaadkhan.com presenting on genealogical anxiety to our weekly POTY research seminar
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Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it
Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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November 24, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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thinking about this wonderful column from 2017 with the title "The Closed Society and Its Friends; A Defense of the Echo Chamber", written by Center for Wild Analysis, a Danish philosophy collective: "There is much talk about the dangers of social media turning into echo chambers, where we... 1/4
November 16, 2024 at 8:13 AM
thinking about this wonderful column from 2017 with the title "The Closed Society and Its Friends; A Defense of the Echo Chamber", written by Center for Wild Analysis, a Danish philosophy collective: "There is much talk about the dangers of social media turning into echo chambers, where we... 1/4