"We can never compromise on compromise."
Sophie is a modern intellectual historian and philosopher specialising in direct democracy, anarchism, activism, and education. She is a fellow at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Remarque fellow at New York University.
Sophie is a regular speaker for the Institute of Art and Ideas and the BBC's Free Thinking programme. Sophie's current project illuminates transatlantic experiments in grassroots democracy among activist networks during the early Cold War. Her research lay the grounds for revitalising liberational politics for a post-industrial world.