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  As many of you probably know, the American Political Science Association just put out a report on political parties in the U.S. It contain...

   From the moment that Carl Schmitt got cozy with the National Socialist Party in pre-WWII Germany, it has been nearly impossible to separa...

The incisive criticisms Schmitt aimed at both liberalism and democracy, and their role in the collapse of the 1919 Weimar Constitution and t...

  For at least the last 20 years, there has been a steady flow of books about Carl Schmitt, the man sometimes referred to as "Hitler...

I want to say something about two of Morton Feldman's final works, Piano and String Quartet (1985) and Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (19...

Is it obvious that the Earth is a globe or is it actually more certain that it couldn't be? And does it really matter which view is the ...

My Hornbook review of Democracy Unmoored is now out at 3:16 AM Magazine here . I had actually expected it to appear at a different venue, bu...

Yascha Mounk's The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure has taken some fairly visceral abuse of ...

My latest Hornbook Review at 3:16 AM is of Tiago Santos' excellent book on parliamentarism and can be found HERE . While we agree on the...

I have now reviewed a baker's dozen worth of books on democratic theory and closely related subjects for 3:16 AM Magazine since about th...

In an even more violent break from democratic theory than exemplified in my last couple of “Eastern Philosophy” entries (a practice I will a...