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Who governs prisons?

10 January 2021 | Christopher Rudolph

  Review The Puzzle of Prison Order by David Skarbek (Oxford University Press 2020)   The Puzzle of Prison Order is a book about prison governance but reads like a story […]

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Revue de Presse : 20 décembre

20 December 2020 | Tocqueville 21

En France, encore une fois, l’on débat de la laïcité. Comme Patrick Weil nous rappelle, la laïcité c’est d’abord du droit, qui protège la liberté de conscience de chacun.e, et […]

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Democracy’s Future: Philosophy and Queerness as Ways of Death

11 October 2020 | Blake Smith

The Covid-19 epidemic has me feeling stuck. I’m held in place by confinement, border closures and quarantines, and held in time by the deferral, or cancellation, of the future—a year’s […]

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What is Christian Democracy?

2 October 2020 | Nathan Pinkoski

Represented in governments across Europe and at the vanguard of the founding of the European project, Christian Democracy was one of the most important postwar political ideologies. Yet surprisingly few […]

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Interviews/Entretiens / Le Club

Alain Bertho : Le temps des révoltes

29 September 2020 | Alain Bertho

Alors que les manifestations et les révoltes se multiplient au niveau mondial depuis deux ans, notre stagiaire Justin Saint-Loubert-Bié a interviewé Alain Bertho, professeur d’anthropologie à l’Université de Paris 8 […]

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Isolation, Loneliness, and Solitude: Hannah Arendt’s Triumvirate

19 July 2020 | Jennifer Stitt

  Is it still I that burns there all alone? Unrecognizable? memories denied? O life, o life: being outside. And I in flames—no one is left—unknown. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Komm […]

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Slow Démocratie / Le Club / Focus

Des formes, et de la politique

2 July 2020 | David Djaïz

Justine Lacroix, Jean-Yves Pranchère et Anton Jäger ont eu l’amabilité de partager quelques-unes de leurs réflexions critiques à propos de mon livre Slow Démocratie, paru à l’automne 2019.   Le […]

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Foucault on Liberal Democracy, Historicism and Philosophy

9 May 2020 | Blake Smith

  Liberal democracy is an oxymoron. Or rather, it’s a site of confrontation between contradictory discourses, between the universalist aspirations of philosophy and the partisanship of historiography. So insinuates Michel […]

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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism / Le Club / Focus

American Dreamwork

20 March 2020 | Emma Mackinnon

This is the fourth post in our review forum of Wendy Brown’s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019).   Wendy Brown’s latest […]

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Parliamentary Thinking / Books/Livres

On Parliamentarism: A Reply to Varouxakis and Rubinelli

11 February 2020 | William Selinger

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: […]

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Is Parliamentarism Compatible with Democracy?

7 February 2020 | Lucia Rubinelli

  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 […]

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Pierre Manent in Search of the Political

4 October 2019 | Blake Smith

Pierre Manent is a philosopher who summons us to the pursuit of truth and the practice of politics. Since the beginning of his career in the late 1970s, these two […]

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Staging Saul Bellow’s Democracy

30 June 2019 | Danielle Charette

  In a 1972 speech at the Chicago Public Library, the novelist Saul Bellow described the Westside branch where he borrowed books as a boy. The regulars at the Humbolt […]

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Voulons-nous vraiment la démocratie?

15 May 2019 | Laetitia Citroën

Sur le film What is democracy ? d’Astra Taylor (Zeitgeist Films, 2018)   Les mots doivent garder leur sens, surtout lorsqu’ils portent les valeurs de toute une époque. « What is […]

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Reasoning with the Greeks

22 February 2019 | Josiah Ober

Danielle Charette and Robert Stone sat down this week with Josiah Ober, the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor of classics and political science at Stanford University. They discussed Professor Ober’s latest book, Demopolis (Cambridge, […]

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Democracy and Its Discontents

17 February 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

I review three excellent and thought-provoking new books on democracy for The American Prospect.   Photo Credit: Natalie Maynor, League of Women Voters, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

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