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November 21, 2024
Adventures in Democracy
Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Dr. Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: f…
November 21, 2024
Civic Solitude
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of coll…
November 16, 2024
Protecting Democracy in Europe
The European Union has a big problem—a potentially fatal one. How should it deal with a member state or states that reject democracy and the rule of l…
November 4, 2024
Kingmaker
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers (Ithaka, 2024) by Sir Graham Brady provides an insider’s look at the power struggle…
November 2, 2024
The Return of Resentment
The term “resentment,” often casually paired with words like “hatred,” “rage,” and “fear,” has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despi…
October 31, 2024
Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
A common argument to explain the ongoing global democratic crisis is that democracy has failed to deliver safe and prosperous lives for its citizens a…
October 30, 2024
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
Based on The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition (University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), this week’s conversation…
October 15, 2024
The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales
What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales (Oxford UP, 2024), Jamie Furlon…
October 15, 2024
The Tech Coup
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power …
October 13, 2024
Making the Revolution Global
Theo Williams’ Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation (Verso, 2022) shows how black r…
October 6, 2024
Brexit, Tweeted
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Bristol…
October 4, 2024
Liberalism as a Way of Life
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liber…
September 28, 2024
Against the Liberal Order
In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision. They introd…
September 23, 2024
The Far-Right Threat in German Politics
The recent elections in eastern Germany, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party to win a parliamentary election at t…
September 23, 2024
The Specter of Dictatorship
At the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether we have a republic or a monarchy. He replied “A Repub…
September 14, 2024
The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland
Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD. Her latest publications include (is The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn co-authored with…
September 13, 2024
Rethinking the End of Empire
Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most …
September 12, 2024
The Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Prince…
September 10, 2024
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey spoke with Olivier Roy, professor of social and political sciences at the Europe…
September 5, 2024
I am pleased to inform the director
Today I talked to Duncan Simpson about his book Tenho o prazer de informar o senhor director: cartas de portugueses à PIDE (1958-1968) ("I am please…