Journal articles
"Women and the Double Standard of Ambition." American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).
"From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and Flattery as Subordination." Co-authored with Mary Jo MacDonald. Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming).
“‘I Love you whom the World calls Enemies’: Mary Astell Against Political Friendship.” History of Political Thought 46.1 (2025): 79-106.
"Looking Beyond Women's Feminist Thought in History." History of European Ideas (2024): 1-21.
“Mary Astell on Moderation: The Case of Occasional Conformity” The European Legacy 28.3-4 (2023): 294-312.
Book Chapters
“Catharine Macaulay, Radicalism, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89." Accepted for publication in Radical Republicanism in Early Modern Europe, eds. Anna Becker, Alessandro Mulieri and Nicolai von Eggers, Brill (forthcoming).
Public Writing
'Liberal to a fault.' Times Literary Supplement. June 12, 2026.
'Great White Men only.' Times Literary Supplement. October 3, 2025.
'An Active Project of Exclusion.’ Review of Patricia Owens' Erased (2025). Co-authored with Jan Eijking. Los Angeles Review of Books. August 6, 2025.
Interviewed about ambition by Esther Elligens, for ‘Is het erg dat ik geen ambitie heb?’ ('Is it bad that I'm not ambitious?'). NRC. June 16, 2025.
'Dangerous woman.'Times Literary Supplement. February 14, 2025.
'Hebben we een probleem met ambitie?' ('Do we have a problem with ambition?') De Groene Amsterdammer. November 10, 2024.
'Om systeemverandering voor elkaar te krijgen vertrouw ik liever op solidariteit en activisme.' Review of Rutger Bregman's Morele Ambitie (2024). De Morgen. April 2, 2024.
'Affirmative Action.' Times Literary Supplement. March 29, 2024.
'Ahead of her time.' Times Literary Supplement. April 28, 2023.
In Progress
"Beyond Servitude and Aristocracy of the Gifted: Talent and Equality in Seventeenth-Century Feminist Thought."
"Pride of Place: Mary Astell’s Embrace of Superiority and Self-Exaltation."
“‘Fortunate enough to fit into this world’? Maria von Herbert on Life and Death,” co-authored with Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews), intended for publication in Kant and Maria von Herbert: Friendship, Trust, and the Meaning of Life. Sources and Critical Explorations, eds. Jens Timmermann and Bernhard Ritter, Oxford University Press.
Partisan Virtue recovers an ethics of partisanship from the lives and works of two eighteenth-century women thinkers—Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay—for whom partisanship offered an unexpected but essential means to political inclusion. They grasped both the benefits of partisanship for those formally excluded from politics—a mechanism their male contemporaries overlooked—and the dangers of the political virtues, like reasonableness, politeness, and compromise, that those men advocated to bridle it.
Oxford University Press, July 2026.