Making the World Safe for Autocracy
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
Ronald Radosh
· 15 min read
democracy
A collection of 33 posts
German Democracy’s Uncertain Future
Friedrich Merz must take the concerns of ordinary citizens seriously—particularly on immigration and Islam. He must prove that such concerns can be addressed without veering into extremism.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 9 min read
The Year of Elections
An unprecedented number of elections took place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America this year. Their results suggest that prospects for democracy are mixed.
Imran Said
· 18 min read
Stop Complaining About the Electoral College
It remains the least undesirable system and changing it is impractical.
Daniel McGraw
· 6 min read
Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics
For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality.
Alan S. Rome
· 13 min read
What's Next for Poland?
The abuses must be tackled, yet the new government must choose its remedies with care.
Dalibor Roháč
· 7 min read
Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic
America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world.
Stephan Jensen
· 18 min read
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan
Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Steven Pinker, Harvey Silverglate
· 15 min read
Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists
My career as a political essayist began 13 years ago. I had been asked by a left-wing Canadian website to expand on my views about a then-ongoing constitutional crisis—and explain why public opinion had turned so sharply in favour of then-prime minister Stephen Harper, even among supporters of parties
Stuart Parker
· 7 min read
Across the Muslim World, Islamism is Going out of Vogue
Islamism as an ideology may be great at mobilizing people, but this doesn’t necessarily translate towards effective governance, as has been proven again and again
Imran Said
· 15 min read
Gulags Are for Artists Like Me
The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account.
Peter Mousaferiadis
· 6 min read
Revisiting Kirkpatrick
Constructive relationships with dictatorships will be key to protecting US interests without direct military involvements.
Niranjan Shankar
· 16 min read
America the Indispensable
As the US was convulsed by the Floyd protests and violence in 2020, the Chinese foreign minister had the gall to denounce the “systemic and persistent existence” of repression of “people of color.”
Joel Kotkin
· 13 min read
Watching America’s Crack-Up
America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 20 min read
The Ear Whisperers
Machiavelli’s clear preference was for an advisor to be principled, believing in his advice and stating it clearly, but not importunate.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read