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Back in 2014, Maria Paula Saffon and Nadia Urbinati published a paper in the journal Political Theory entitled "Procedural Democracy, ...

  Back in March of 2024, I wrote a piece about the ambiguity of the term "wasted votes." In it I reproduced three or four inconsi...

  Something good has actually happened for the future of democracy someplace! Not in the U.S., natch, but in the land of Viginia Woolf and T...

  Back in 1968, Professor David Braybrooke published his book Three Tests for Democracy. Much of that work focuses on rights and welfare, bu...

In his excellent book on the history of American racial domination and genocide, Robert Jones focuses on "The Doctrine of Discovery,...

For at least a decade, I have been trying to get more respect for prudential values (that which is good for individuals and groups), based o...

  Possibly better known for her books on Arendt and Chesterton, Margaret Canovan was surely one of the most important British theorists of t...

In what is likely to be my last "scholarly paper" (journal publishing is just too aggravating for my delicate constitution), I arg...

In her excellent  New Yorker   portrait   of monarch-loving, narcissistic tech bro, Curtis Yarvin, Ava Kofman points out a couple of things ...

Many readers in my age bracket will know that many, perhaps most , of the desiderata of the Trump Administration have been around a long tim...