Education and Property for All: Thomas Piketty on Capital and Ideology
With the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century in 2013, Thomas Piketty became perhaps the world’s best-known chronicler and theorist of global inequality. His latest book, Capital and Ideology, […]
Municipal Medicine
Until last week, the impending municipal elections in France were distinguished only by the eagerness of candidates across France to dissociate themselves from any of the political parties, affiliation with […]
Revue de Presse : 16 février
Le Pacte vert d’Ursula Von der Leyen n’est rien qu’un éco-blanchiment, écrivent Yanis Varoufakis and David Adler dans un article pour The Guardian. Les sommes sont insuffisantes. L’importance du capital […]
On Parliamentarism: A Reply to Varouxakis and Rubinelli
William Selinger offers a response to his reviewers in our “Parliamentary Thinking” book forum. It is a pleasure to respond to Georgios Varouxakis and Lucia Rubinelli’s commentaries on Parliamentarism: […]
Is Parliamentarism Compatible with Democracy?
This is the second review in our “Parliamentary Thinking” book forum. Review of William Selinger, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Historians of political […]
Parliamentary Continuities
This is the first review in our “Parliamentary Thinking” book forum. Review of William Selinger, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge University Press, 2019). William Selinger’s book […]
Book Forum: Parliamentary Thinking
This is the launch of a joint book forum on “Parliamentary Thinking.” William Selinger, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge University Press, 2019) Gregory Conti, Parliament the Mirror of […]
How to Change the Electoral College
I staffed the polls as a volunteer Election Officer because I wanted to see democracy in action. Instead, I got an intimate understanding of one of its greatest failures. […]
Revue de Press: February 2
Whatever you believe, you’re probably wrong about inequality. At least that’s what Jonathan Rothwell thinks. In an article for Foreign Policy, he argues that globalization and corporations are not […]
An Existentialist Tocqueville? Beauvoir against America
Americans have made a kind of civic cult out of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Perhaps it was hoped that praising to the skies one Frenchman’s opinion of our […]