📖 The Republic of Innovation (Polity), The Political Economy of Italy's Decline (Oxford), Declino Italia (Einaudi), State-Building in Kosovo (Bloomsbury) ✒️ Domani, Le Grand Continent, sometimes Financial Timeshttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mv32yowcwc2sThis is all that matters: 'Europeans overwhelmingly want a strong, united and independent Europe' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/09/europeans-want-united-europe-union-study-finds09 Sep 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv32yowcwc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3muyg2fmew22oExcellent piece by @casmudde.bsky.social : 'Time is running out to stop the far right.' A possible response in my piece here: https://www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berlins-negative-liberty-now-fetters-progressive-politics [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Sep 2026 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyg2fmew22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3muyfl3lqnc2hExcellent piece: 'Time is running out to stop the far right' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/afd-win-germany-far-right-europe-democracy?CMP=share_btn_url A possible response in my piece here: https://www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berlins-negative-liberty-now-fetters-progressive-politics08 Sep 2026 06:31 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyfl3lqnc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3muor2uiqok2pL'Opinion sur quatre ans de Meloni au pouvoir, avec mes commentaires : https://share.google/bz5Do6BoYGPATsw4U04 Sep 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muor2uiqok2phttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mujgjjlgf223The liberal view of freedom – non-interference – is hegemonic, and sounds obvious. I think 'its implications raise tall normative and rhetorical obstacles to progressive reform — and entail that liberal socialism, taken literally, is a contradiction in terms.' https://www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berlins-negative-liberty-now-fetters-progressive-politics02 Sep 2026 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujgjjlgf223https://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mujfy4yfb22dI conclude thus: 'the republican-Schumpeterian synthesis offers progressives a coherent basis on which to build attractive and realistic programmes of reform, which could defeat both the demagogic right and neoliberal conservatives.' https://www.socialeurope.eu/isaiah-berlins-negative-liberty-now-fetters-progressive-politics02 Sep 2026 07:28 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujfy4yfb22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3muh227asfs2dAs I published this, Social Europe – @henningmeyer.eurosky.social – published this excellent piece by Andrew Watt, on the opportunity for establishing an EU safe asset: the convergence is obvious, as a safe asset is critical for autonomy https://www.socialeurope.eu/americas-fiscal-crisis-is-europes-chance-to-build-a-treasury-market-of-its-own [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muh227asfs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mugwr4gwrs2y‘After the summer of humiliation of 2025, and a winter marked by [US] geopolitical adventurism, Europeans seem to have realised that the cost of lacking autonomy from Washington is unsustainable.‘ Here I discuss the republican basis for Europe’s autonomy https://andreacapussela.substack.com/p/europes-autonomy-and-republican-freedom?r=6uzr4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true01 Sep 2026 07:51 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mugwr4gwrs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mu3a4l3j622dThis piece argues that working class support for the far right is 'a case of suicide out of fear of death'. Yes. But the reason may be that what progressives offer is neoliberalism lite. Were they to offer republican freedom instead, things would change https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/27/fellow-east-germans-frustrations-afd-state-elections27 Aug 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3a4l3j622dhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mu2feq7g3c2lExcellent, by @brankomilan.bsky.social, on warmongering by smaller powers: ought to disturb our consciences and alert our intelligence: https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/on-european-hypocrisy-and-warmongering?r=6uzr4&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web27 Aug 2026 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2feq7g3c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mtxtpm2gzc2zOnline lunch talk on my book, 6th October at noon: https://gdi.ch/en/events/conferences/online-lunchtalk-rethinking-freedom/register26 Aug 2026 07:46 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxtpm2gzc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mtxry5tk5c2uDagospia offre un'interpretazione originale della similitudine nel mio articolo: https://www.ft.com/content/dcf20385-21a5-4328-9bc6-98a666caaaf626 Aug 2026 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxry5tk5c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mtvyauoj3s2sThis electoral reform, I argue in this piece, will 'add to the ruin of Italy's institutions' [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvyauoj3s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mtvctbrpis2rDelighted that FT chose this sentence of my piece as the caption for the (well-chosen) picture: 'Like a fishmonger after days of rough seas, Meloni has scant goods to sell.' [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvctbrpis2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mtnsva64z22uIndeed, Italian renaissance princes are thought to have believed that art and beauty would protect them: successive invasions proved them wrong, and Machiavelli right [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 08:05 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnsva64z22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mtgshoszjk2z'Non è mai possibile dimenticare ... che gli israeliani combattono non solo per difendere il loro territorio, ma sempre per la loro stessa esistenza, la loro sopravvivenza.' Curioso che G Pasquino scriva questo, di uno stato con 300 testate nucleari https://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/commenti/elezioni-israele-politiche-ottobre-netanyahu-pace-mt62naw719 Aug 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgshoszjk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mst7atbbws22A generous Polish review of my book says that it 'makes an exceptionally bold claim', 'proposes a comprehensive reconstruction of Western capitalism', and 'is written almost like fiction': https://www.obserwatorfinansowy.pl/tematyka/makroekonomia/trendy-gospodarcze/wolnosciowa-recepta-na-innowacyjna-republike/11 Aug 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mst7atbbws22https://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mr56zpqnds2nQui Orazio, Machiavelli, Leopardi, Manzoni: su leggi, norme sociali, ordine sociale, e credibilità delle regole [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 06:36 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr56zpqnds2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mr55rzs3qs2tNel 1991–94, c’era una vera aspirazione al «civismo»? C’era, io credo. È invece mancata la prospettiva credibile della transizione a un ordine sociale migliore. Temo che quella prospettiva manchi tuttora. Il principale vantaggio delle destre è questo. https://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/commenti/un-ordine-sociale-iniquo-il-problema-delle-regole-in-italia-e-tutto-politico-qlaynt8j21 Jul 2026 06:14 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr55rzs3qs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mqjhnjud422gAfter the Financial Times, also Handelsblatt names my book among the best ones in economics this year: https://www.handelsblatt.com/arts_und_style/literatur/buecher-zehn-wirtschaftsbuecher-die-sie-im-sommer-inspirieren/100236424.html13 Jul 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjhnjud422ghttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mq5p6mnzjc26This could be crucial for Europe's autonomy, but would ideally be a European project: 'Être capable en 2029 d’entraîner des modèles à la frontière. Nous montrons que cet objectif est atteignable.' Thanks @grandcontinent.bsky.social for signalling it https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/07/08/operation-promethee-la-france-peut-gagner-la-course-a-lia-quel-en-serait-le-prix/08 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5p6mnzjc26https://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mpq7zq2gks2cFor my British friends: ' a massacre made in Whitehall, at the behest of Trump’s White House, in order to buff up shareholder returns.' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid03 Jul 2026 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpq7zq2gks2chttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mph4arypd22cDelighted to present my book tomorrow at Regensburg university29 Jun 2026 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mph4arypd22chttps://bsky.app/profile/andreacapussela.bsky.social/post/3mpgbnkpf5c27Splendid news: archives might give Quixote a good film version https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/29/orson-welles-unfinished-don-quixote-film29 Jun 2026 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:xdinz5v4bl3vbntsulhseulo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgbnkpf5c27