Harmony Korine’s Wasteland Wonderlands
Despite their emphasis on anarchy and debauchery, Harmony Korine’s films about poverty are actually not very fun to watch. In fact, the director of Gummo (1997) and Spring Breakers (2012) has […]
America’s Orwellian Left
John Michael Colón’s excellent essay on democratic socialism and the contemporary American left centers around George Orwell’s Animal Farm. As Colón writes, the book is mainly known as a warning […]
Introducing Tocqueville 21’s Revue de Presse
Starting this weekend, we’re going to be trying something new on this blog: putting together a weekly collection of some of the most interesting articles, in English and French, that […]
Restricting the Ballot, to Save Democracy
This is a student post, in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Democracy Initiative. Trump’s failure to release his tax returns during the 2016 election shattered a presidential norm dating […]
The Republicans Temporize
With the news that Les Républicains are about to choose Christian Jacob as their new leader, it is clear that the party has no idea where it intends to go […]
Lithuania Bucks the Trend
If the lesson of last month’s election to the European Parliament is that the “establishment” is struggling, then count Lithuania out. Voters across Europe shifted from traditional center-right and […]
The Religion Card: Islamophobia and Political Islam in Asian Democracies
This is a student post, in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Democracy Initiative. Over the past few weeks, two of the world’s largest democracies, India and Indonesia, both […]
The Problem with the Horse’s Mouth: The Case for the White House Press Briefing
This is a student post, in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Democracy Initiative. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson held the White House’s first press conference. In 1914, the White […]
Announcing our student contributors
Soon you’ll be seeing a set of posts from undergraduates at the University of Chicago—written not just by our Metcalf interns but also students enrolled in this spring’s Democratic Erosion […]
Sophia Rosenfeld replies to her readers
This is the follow-up to our book forum on Sophia Rosenfeld’s Democracy and Truth: A Short History. Is it odd to begin by saying that I am thrilled with the […]