Defending Democracy When Voters Make Bad Choices
It is precisely when the largest bloc of voters has chosen poorly that we need democracy the most.
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Neon Liberalism #4: Coups—How Do They Work?
What makes for a successful coup, and wouldn't South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol like to know? Adam Gurri joins Samantha and Jason to talk about one of the biggest stories of the week, and whether America is on the path to a personalist dictatorship. Coups: How Do
America's Paths to Personalism
The three primary risk vectors of the second Trump administration.
A Practical Program for Resisting a Trump Second Term
How to fight back against the implementation of fascism in America.
Donald Trump, in His Own Words and Deeds
We cannot let people grow numb to the things Trump says and does.
An Open Society, If You Can Keep It
The modern world made the open society possible, but also empowered people seeking to undermine it.
We Can Organize
The methods of the Civil Rights Movement are still available to us today.
He Will Try
Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.
Contributing to the Liberal Project as a Writer: A Primer
How writing from the very abstract to the very particular can help to advance a liberal agenda.
Taking Inclusion Seriously: Kevin Elliott's Democracy for Busy People
“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” This question, asked by English writer Samuel Johnson in 1775, still touches a nerve today. Americans on the one hand carry the pride of one of the oldest sets of representative institutions in the
Let's Wreck Some Norms and Take the Court Down a Peg
It may be difficult to believe today, but Congress was once a force to be reckoned with. The pinnacle of this, of course, was Reconstruction, during which Congress regularly overrode the president’s veto and even impeached one for the first time. Most significantly, the Reconstruction Congress regularly put the
The Case Against Dictatorship
The problem with democracies is that they are sclerotic, indecisive, and dithering; by contrast, states ruled by strong and capable dictators are capable of rapid policy change–or so it is argued. As one prominent critic puts it, democracies “are inherently reactionary and absolutist” compared with dictatorships, which “accept the