It was all disorienting to Americans—the great majority, I suspect—who understand the word in its ordinary procedural sense. Democracy, in this planer sense, is about fair elections, rules-based ...
THE AMERICAN STAKES—John Chamberlain—Carrick & Evans ($2.75). ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE—J. P. Mayer —Viking ($3). Many observers devoutly agree that the year 1940 would be a good year for a lot of people ...
The title of Olivier Zunz’s biography of Alexis de Tocqueville—“The Man Who Understood Democracy”—would appear to be a direct appeal to readers who believe democracy is, to use one popular formulation ...
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Capitalism Subverts Democracy
In recent decades, the American economy has been characterized by rising inequality, shrinking free time, and the growing ...
A university leader for nearly 30 years and an academic expert in how institutions shape society, Daniels celebrates the indispensable role of universities in democracy while also acknowledging where ...
The political landscape in the U.S. is fraught, to say the least. Often individuals feel that their actions won’t make much difference in the long run. Author Sam Daley-Harris says that many people ...
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Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy?
A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...
According to the conventional wisdom, the biggest threats to liberal democracy today come from abstract groups of people, with one side blaming "elites" and the other decrying the poor judgement of ...
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How Can We Fix American Democracy?
Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially ...
Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the city's libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the ...
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