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Timothy Mitchell in conversation with Noah Kulwin | The Verso Book Club Reading Group

5 March 2026

Timothy Mitchell in conversation with Noah Kulwin | The Verso Book Club Reading Group

On March 22nd at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the VBC Reading Group will be joined by Timothy Mitchell, acclaimed author of Carbon Democracy, to discuss his latest book, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow. We'll be joined by Noah Kulwin, co-host of Blowback.

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The VBC Reading Group is open to all Book Club members. You can join the Book Club for as little as $10 / £8 per month, with no commitment.

Timothy Mitchell is a political theorist and historian who has written about colonialism, Middle East politics, economics, expert knowledge in the government of collective life, and the history and politics of energy. His previous books include Carbon Democracy, Rule of Experts, Questions of Modernity, and Colonising Egypt

Noah Kulwin is a writer, journalist, and co-host of the history podcast Blowback. His work appears in The New Statesman, The Intercept, Jewish Currents, Defector, The Drift, New York Magazine, The New York Times, and others. 

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