Seamus Flaherty

Seamus Flaherty is a writer and historian of ideas. He is the author of ‘Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism’. He is currently writing a new book on Tory Socialism.

3 Posts

On Conservative Socialism

Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.

Seamus Flaherty

27 Dec 2022 · 16 min read

Liberalism and its Discontents—A Review

A Review of Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama. Profile Books, 178 pages (March 2022) Liberalism is in bad odour. In the third decade of the 21st century, it is an ideology with few friends. Derided with equal vigour by populists on the Right and “progressives” on the Left,

Seamus Flaherty

21 Apr 2022 · 8 min read

The Subversive Simone Weil—A Review

Chastising the followers of Marx for ignoring workers’ actual experiences, Weil was almost a nominalist, and she awaited insights, as opposed to going in search of them.

Seamus Flaherty

30 Jul 2021 · 8 min read