Mar 29, 2019
From Prague, where he served as Ambassador from the United States, Norman Eisen discusses the ups and downs of democracy in the Czech city over the course of the 20th century. Democracy, he argues, offers core freedoms—personal, political, press, and juridical—that other forms of government ultimately cannot...
Mar 15, 2019
Moisés Naím, distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, explains the trend of “one vote, one person, one time,” or, how some democratically-elected leaders undermine institutional checks and balances in an attempt to hold onto power indefinitely. Crucially, however, many of these...
Mar 15, 2019
Soraya Chemaly, author, activist, and director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, challenges the idea that democracy in the United States was ever unbroken, unpacks the negative and sometimes violent reactions to women who show political ambition, and explains how culture and gender frame the way we think...
Mar 1, 2019
Eurosceptic and anti-Brexit, The Economist’s Adrian Wooldridge argues that democracy must find a middle ground between the elites and the populists. However, even this middle ground proves to be controversial. Wooldridge and Andrew Keen debate whether a politics of identity is undermining or invigorating democracy,...