Hopeful New Year!
Five Notes Against Despair, 2021 Despair The Covid-19 pandemic is spreading and is ineffectively controlled, as is the global political pandemic, spectacularly on... Read more.
The Seamy Side of the Politics of Small Things
Turkey Poland, China, the United States and beyond In 2006, I published The Politics of Small Things. When I submitted the first draft to the University of... Read more.
Trumpism and the Banality of Evil
More reflections on challenges of historical comparisons Donald Trump has been to the very end true to form, unrelentingly pursuing his self -interest and his inventive... Read more.
The Unfinished Project of Defeating Donald Trump
Reflections on the elections in the United States Finally, I said no to Donald Trump, clearly and consequentially. I have voiced my judgment over the past... Read more.
After Trump
Towards democracy and social justice Donald Trump will lose, assuredly. Joe Biden will win, decisively. I haven’t been so sure of election results since 2016.... Read more.
‘The Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life’
Tyrone Chambers II, Krzysztof Czyżewski, Vera Grant, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Dan Shore, Marci Shore 21 September 2020 Edited and abridged by Marci Shore KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI:... Read more.
Pandemic Politics
Reflections on the first appearance of the Biden – Harris team “Biden gave the best speech of his life!” “Kamala is killing it!” ... Read more.
We’re All in the Same Boat: A Democracy Seminar Update
The Democracy Seminar, our worldwide committee of democratic correspondence, has moved to Zoom. Before the pandemic, last October, we held a conference in New York... Read more.
The Politics of Small Things Before, During and After the Pandemic
From the Kitchen Table to the Kitchen Cabinet A paper prepared as the keynote address at the BISLA virtual conference “The World After the Pandemic,”... Read more.
Elections 2020
An interview with Jacek Kucharczyk about the upcoming Polish vote After a controversial postponement of the presidential elections in Poland in May, due to the coronavirus... Read more.
Donald Trump’s Daily Briefings: Personal and Political Reflections
I wake up in the morning determined to examine one of Donald Trump’s press briefings, seeking to analyze the specific ideological and expressive dimensions... Read more.
The Expressive Antidote to the Trumpist Virus
How Erving Goffman helps us understand the hidden power of Biden, Sanders, and the Democratic governors In order to defend and extend democracy in America in the... Read more.
Gray is Beautiful, Part 3
Gray is Beautiful, Part 3 How do we balance the agendas of progressive and moderate voters? This is the final part of a three-part post (part 1 and part... Read more.
Gray is Beautiful, Part 2
On the Social Condition and Fractured Society in Donald Trump’s America This is the second part of a three-part post (part 1 and part 3 are linked... Read more.
Gray is Beautiful, Part 1
On the Social Condition and Fractured Society in Donald Trump’s America Between the stark blacks and whites of political and cultural conflicts, there is a gray... Read more.
The Democratic Power of Inertia in Social Life
And its limits in fractured society I have long been impressed by the positive power of inertia in social life. But in the fractured society we now live in, I worry... Read more.
Why I Don’t Like the Leading Democratic Candidates to be President of the United States
And why I would support anyone of them Soon after Donald Trump’s election, in an essay entitled “On Trump and Trumpism,” I confessed:... Read more.
Democrats of the World, Unite!
A Report on the First International Meeting of Democracy Seminar 2.0 With authoritarians dominating worldwide – Trump, Putin, Erdogan, Orban, and Kaczynski,... Read more.
Open Letter: We Stand with the Kurdish People of Syria!
From members of Democracy Seminar 2.0: We are writing as scholars and citizens of the world to express our concern for the Kurdish people of Syria, whose fate has... Read more.
For Democracy / Against Cynicism
On Trump, McConnell, Pelosi and Company This essay was originally posted on July 31 2019. “I believe the single most pressing challenge facing American society... Read more.