Caroline Ashcroft

Very pleased and excited that Catastrophic Technology is NOW OUT! (And just in time for Christmas 😉) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-catastrop… @EdinburghUP

My review of Istvan Hont, "Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx" (CUP, 2026). "Istvan is relatively unknown in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, he is considered one of the great intellectual historians of his generation." @LawLiberty lawliberty.org/book-review/bu…

Lewis Mumford argued that a quasi-religious faith underlies our culture’s embrace of technology. The AI revolution is the latest reminder of the value of this insight: compactmag.com/article/ai-and…

My new article on Barbara Ward's global thinking is out open access. It's part of a really fascinating special issue on geographical imaginaries edited by @Ant_FdO and Luke Ashworth @GSQ_Journal. Global Divisions: The Spatial Imagination of Barbara Ward academic.oup.com/isagsq/article…

Excited to see this out in the world! hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Wow politics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor…

Associate Professor @MaxSkjonsberg reviews Hugo Drochon's new book  "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton, 2026) for @Lawliberty. The book tells the story of how the “ruling class” and the “iron law of oligarchy” came to dominate modern political life and theory.📖 #UFHamilton lawliberty.org/book-review/th…

The most dangerous AI con is not that machines are like humans but that humans are like machines.

Delighted to see this superb piece by Callum Barrell published in History of European Ideas today - notionally a review of 'Catastrophic Technology' but so much more! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A piece I wrote on 'Catastrophic Technology' for the American Philosophical Association blog - just up blog.apaonline.org/2026/02/16/tot…

The fact that people need a dead man's files to believe a thousand living women... tells you everything about whose voices they don't.

Cédric Durand (@cedric_durand) on what comes after the AI boom: ‘No one should doubt that this is Big Tech’s strategy, and that even a cascade of failures in the AI business will not make them deviate from it.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Now online: Eric Loefflad (@UniKent) reviews "Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (@EdinburghUP, 2024) by @CSAshcroft tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New OPT programme just dropped! Check out our events page to see the programme for the Oxford Political Thought Seminar this term: intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/events

Congrats to my MIH colleague Duncan Kelly on his forthcoming book—a highly anticipated intellectual history of World War I that dives into its origins and political aftermath: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Ph.D. students in the PPE research group at KCL are organising the "PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference" on November 26th, 2025. See the details here: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. student and help us spread the word.

Most amazing new doctoral school for the arts and humanities at King's - 20 new PhD studentships next year, bright stars be in touch! 🌟kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-lau… @KingsCollegeLon @kingshistory @kingsar

📢 New Blog Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/droppi…

Very much looking forward to delivering this year's Quentin Skinner Lecture this Friday @CRASSHlive @CamHistory crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46619/