Gray is Beautiful
Written by:Irit Dekel is guest editor of an ongoing symposium on Jeffrey Goldfarb’s latest book on the retreat of democracy.
Issue: Issue Post
Category: Issue Post
The Truth of The New Right
Written by:The Democracy Seminar relaunches with a renewed global mission: to connect scholars and democrats in confronting today’s mounting threats to democracy. In this new salvo, focused on the “truth” of the New Right, scholars examine how knowledge production and manipulation fuel the rise of illiberal movements in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and the United States—highlighting the urgent work needed to defend both democracy and truth.
New Chapter for the Democracy Seminar
Written by:This issue marks a new chapter in the Democracy Seminar’s history. Four decades after its founding as a forum for democratic correspondence across borders, the Seminar begins a new phase through its partnership with the European Democracy Institute at Bard College Berlin and the New School for Social Research. The relaunch comes at a moment when democratic institutions face renewed pressures around the world. Growing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, …
Small Acts of Democratic Resistance
Written by:We relaunched the Democracy Seminar back in 2018 as a “worldwide committee of democratic correspondence” in the hope that “democrats of the world can learn from each other as we oppose the dark forces of our times.”