Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University and the author of the book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Made in partnership with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.... Continue Reading →
Peter Pomerantsev on Winning an Information War
Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University where he co-directs the Arena Initiative. His past books include Nothing is True and Everything is Possible and This is Not Propaganda. His most recent book is called How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler. Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon Make... Continue Reading →
Does Democracy Rely on a Civic Bargain? Josiah Ober Makes the Case
Josiah Ober is a Professor of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the coauthor, along with Brook Manville, of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. What we really need to do is... Continue Reading →
Does Democracy Die in Darkness? Katlyn Carter on Transparency and Secrecy in Early Representative Governments
Katlyn Carter is an assistant professor of history at Notre Dame University. She is the author of Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. If we're thinking about democracy as something broader that is producing equality, justice or these... Continue Reading →
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 →
Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy
Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor of History at Boston College. Her daily newsletter Letters from an American is read by millions. She has a new book out as of today called Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. It would be... Continue Reading →
Is Reunification Still Possible? Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo on Korea
Victor Cha is a professor of government at Georgetown University and holds the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is a former director for Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council. Ramon Pacheco Pardo is a professor of international relations at King’s College London and... Continue Reading →
Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Union
Joseph Torigian is a Research Fellow at the Stanford Hoover History Lab. Previously he was an assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. He is the author of Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China... Continue Reading →
Hal Brands Thinks China is a Declining Power… Here’s Why that’s a Problem
Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the coauthor (with Michael Beckley) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China and the author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today. Access Bonus... Continue Reading →
Natasha Wheatley Raises Some Really Difficult Questions About Sovereignty
Natasha Wheatley is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. My book is in some ways trying to help us see not... Continue Reading →