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  There may be nobody more beloved by the American left these days than Prof. Cox Richardson. She's not only a progressive academic, she...

  Naturally, many Americans are extremely concerned about the upcoming Presidential and Congressional elections. I include myself in this gr...

All of you will of course have read or heard by now that the Supreme Court, has by a 6-3 majority, recently distinguished two sorts of ...

I've never done anything like this before, but this Sidney Blumenthal piece in The Guardian is so good, and captures what's ruining...

My background is in philosophy, meaning that I'm not trained in any empirical science, social or otherwise. Neither can I properly be ca...

  While I slowly slog through Edward Elgar Publishing's new and massive Research Handbook on Populism , which will be the subject of my ...

   After writing what seems like a hundred reviews of contemporary books on democratic theory, my own (likely idiosyncratic) view about the ...

  Those who have hung around "voting reform" advocates for any period of time will have surely heard nearly every group brag that ...

  There is widespread agreement these days that elections aren't working very well for the people of supposedly democratic polities arou...

1      I am a big fan of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I have learned a lot from it over the years and am generally very impres...