It is almost axiomatic that authoritarian (or “would be” authoritarian) leaders are innately hostile to free and open universities. Consider, for instance, the obsessive preoccupation over much of the ...

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...

Are democracy and capitalism compatible? Or, to put it differently: What made democracy and capitalism compatible for decades, even centuries, and what strains this relationship today? The end of the ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

In early 2018, Larry Kramer, the dean of Stanford Law School and the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which held assets of about $10 billion and disbursed around $400 million a ...

In the 1930s, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced the monumental challenge of restoring Americans’ faith in the economy. Agriculture and heavy manufacturing were at the heart of ...

I first came to Washington in the fall of 1969 to spend a year working on Capitol Hill. My introduction to the city and its politics was a jolting one. A few days in, while sharing a house near Dupont ...

Mothers Of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy By Elizabeth Gillespie McRae • Oxford University Press • 2018 • 343 pages • $34.95 After the 2016 election, many ...

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few years.

On Election Day 2016, hundreds flocked to Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite in Rochester, New York to place their “I Voted” stickers on her tombstone. Video from the day shows a steady stream of visitors, ...

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals By Tyler Cowen • Stripe Press • 2018 • 160 pages • $17 Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class ...