Adrian Pabst is Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and author of several books, including Metaphysics: the Creation of Hierarchy (2012), The Politics of Virtue: Post-liberalism and the Human Future (2016, with John Milbank) and Postliberal Politics (2021). He lives in London, England. Twitter: @AdrianPabst1