 | James Panton is a politics teacher at Stowe School in Buckingham, a lecturer in politics at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and an Associate Lecturer in Politics at the Open University. He is also co-founder and member of the radical civil liberties campaigning group The Manifesto Club. In his academic work James specialises in intellectual history, and has a particular interest in changing conceptions of ‘the political’ in the 20th century. He is author of a number of academic articles and book chapters, and co-editor of Science Vs. Superstition: The Case for a New Scientific Enlightenment (Policy Exchange, 2006). James regularly takes part in radio and television debates on politics, education and intellectual life, and he writes for print and online media. |
James Panton, ‘Reflections of a early career Don’ in D Palfreyman (ed) The Oxford Tutorial (OxCHEPS and Blackwells, 2008).
James Panton, ‘Intellectual influences on the New Left in America: C Wright Mills and Herbert Marcuse’. In journal: Reconstruction Vol. 8 No. 1. 2008.
Science vs Superstition: the case for a new scientific enlightenment (ed.) (Policy Exchange, 2006)
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