Can “Procedural Extremism” Save Democracy?
Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a common narrative to explain the state of American democracy has been the story of “norm erosion.” The premise of this narrative is […]
MoreLilla, Liberalism, and American Politics
What is there left to say about Mark Lilla’s The Once and Future Liberal? Few serious books about American politics in recent years have prompted such an impressive volume of […]
MoreIdentity Politics in a Liberal Democracy
After the 2016 election Democrats were left to ponder: what went wrong and what was to be done? Of the many interventions that followed, perhaps none generated as much debate […]
MoreFor a Chastened Militant Democracy
American democracy is in crisis, and if the latest headlines are to be believed, the cause of this crisis is a breakdown of civility, which can refer to anything from […]
MoreFocus: Human Rights and Global Inequality
A roundtable exchange on Samuel Moyn, Not Enough (Harvard University Press, 2018) Donald Trump is President of the United States, and when he has not been threatening immigrants and ethnic minorities […]
MoreSocialism and Polarization
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week became the Democratic nominee and presumptive winner in the NY14 congressional race. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America—a left-wing organization whose membership […]
MoreElites and the “Omnipotence of the Majority”
In the midst of our series on elites and democracy in France, I thought I’d take a slight détour américain by way of Tocqueville. A recent column about American elites in […]
MorePatrick Weil: “The Problem Lies at the Summit of Power”
Patrick Weil is a historian of immigration and citizenship law, a senior research fellow at the CNRS and the University of Paris 1, and a visiting professor at Yale Law […]
MoreJean-Claude Monod: “Il y a une figure qu’on peut exhumer, le chef émancipateur”
Directeur de recherches au CNRS et professeur de philosophie à l’Ecole normale supérieure, Jean-Claude Monod est l’auteur de Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie?, une réflexion sur le charisme et l’autorité dans la […]
MoreJean-Claude Monod: “After the totalitarian experience, we can recover the emancipatory leader”
Jean-Claude Monod is a research director at the CNRS and professor of philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure. In Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie? [What is a leader in a democracy?], he […]
MoreWendy Brown: “Who is not a neoliberal today?”
Since its original publication in 2015, Wendy Brown’s book Undoing the Demos has become a standard reference for those seeking to understand the relationship between neoliberalism and democracy. Brown’s central […]
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