Hearing George W. Bush in 2021
While not forgetting his disastrous presidency It has been quite a while since I paid much attention to George W. Bush. And I had no particular interest in what... Read more.
Does the Biden Administration Represent a New Beginning for American Democracy?
While the scales might be heavily “weighted in favor of disaster,” there are reasons for a certain hopefulness These remarks were presented as a lecture at the... Read more.
Thinking About The Crisis of Liberal Democracy Through a Polish Lens
A Symposium on The End of the Liberal Mind: Poland’s New Politics, edited by Jarosław Kuisz and Karolina Wigura (Kultura Liberalna Foundation: Warsaw, 2020) Symposium... Read more.
Symposium Introduction
The End of the Liberal Mind: Poland’s New Politics, edited by Jarosław Kuisz and Karolina Wigura (Kultura Liberalna Foundation: Warsaw, 2020) That liberal democracy... Read more.
Republican Attacks on Voting Rights Are Racist and Hostile to Democracy
Resistance to these Republican assaults can and should take a number of forms. The Republican Party’s assault on constitutional democracy continues unabated.... Read more.
Putting Liberal Democracy First Has Never Been More Important
It is hard to see how our current injustices can be repaired without working through and then “democratizing” these liberal democratic institutions.... Read more.
Citizens Defending Democracy Are Being Shot on the Streets of Myanmar.
We should support them On February 1 there was a military coup in Myanmar. As citizens have protested the abrogation of their country’s recent democratic election–through... Read more.
Can The Republican Party Successfully Orbanify the U.S.?
Some comparative reflections on the exceptional vulnerability of American democracy Photo by European Parliament This past year the U.S. experienced a transfer of... Read more.
Confronting the World Wide Threat of Right Wing Authoritarianism
If we don’t hang together, we will surely hang separately In his latest Substack post, Democracy Seminar convener Jeff Goldfarb announced that we “will... Read more.
The Day After?
We have much work yet to do The mainstream media—very cautious, very authoritative in such things—have now called it. The votes have been... Read more.