How Can Democracy Survive in an Age of Discontent? Rachel Navarre and Matthew Rhodes-Purdy on Populism and Political Extremism

Rachel Navarre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Master of Public Administration Program at Bridgewater State University. Matthew Rhodes-Purdy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. They are the coauthors (along with Stephen Utych) of The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories... Continue Reading →

November 28, 2023 0

Rachel Schwartz on How Guatemala Rose Up Against Democratic Backsliding

Rachel Schwartz is an assistant professor of international and area studies at the University of Oklahoma. Recently, she cowrote an article with Anita Isaacs for the Journal of Democracy called, “How Guatemala Defied the Odds." She also authored a book earlier this year called Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in... Continue Reading →

November 21, 2023 0

Who is Alexey Navalny? David Herszenhorn Paints a Picture

David Herszenhorn is the Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe editor at The Washington Post and was a correspondent for Politico Europe and The New York Times. He is the author The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. It's impossible not to... Continue Reading →

November 14, 2023 0

Leadership is Not a Formula Says Moshik Temkin

Moshik Temkin is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership and History at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, and a fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His most recent book is Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time... Continue Reading →

November 7, 2023 0

Patricia Evangelista Says The Philippines is an Example of What Happens When Autocrats and Dictators Rise and We Let Them

Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist and former investigative reporter for the Philippine news company Rappler. She has received the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. Recently, she authored the book Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to... Continue Reading →

October 31, 2023 0

Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President

Cenk Uygur is a host of the show The Young Turks and the founder, president, and CEO of its parent company TYT. He is a Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States and the author of Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to... Continue Reading →

October 24, 2023 0

Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East

Shadi Hamid is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board at The Washington Post. He is also a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary and the co-host of the podcast Wisdom of Crowds. His most recent book is The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an... Continue Reading →

October 17, 2023 0

Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality

Branko Milanovic is a Research Professor at the City University of New York and a Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He served as the lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years. His most recent book is Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End... Continue Reading →

October 10, 2023 0

Defining Democracy: The Important Distinction Between “Morality” and “Ethics”

Public servants must be able to construct a firewall between their deeply-held private beliefs and their ideas about public policy. By Logan Williams In October 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton came under fire for the content of a paid speech that she had given, the original draft of which had been attained and released by WikiLeaks.... Continue Reading →

October 6, 2023 0

Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology

Yascha Mounk is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. He’s a writer for The Atlantic, founder of the online magazine Persuassion, and host of the podcast The Good Fight. He is the author of The People vs Democracy, The Great Experiment, and The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and... Continue Reading →

October 3, 2023 0

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30

Democracy Paradox