Tag: democracy

• Elon Musk and the Decline of Western Civilization

  January 20, 2025

  Back in 2021, I wrote a blog post for American Purpose on “Silvio Berlusconi and the Decline of Western Civilization.” In it I argued that when historians 50 or 100… more ›

• The Great Decentralization

  January 8, 2025

  For the past two decades, most online discourse has occurred on a handful of social media platforms. Their dominion seemed unshakeable. The question wasn’t when a challenger to Twitter or… more ›

• Strong Gods and Demagogues

  November 11, 2024

  Family, faith and nation challenge the open society. In order to better understand the robust staying power of the populist and nationalist narrative in democracies across the West, I have… more ›

• Democracy

  September 15, 2024

  Our work in democracy explores the future challenges and opportunities faced by democratic politics. https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/research-projects/democracy/ more ›

• How the NBA got into business with an African dictator

  July 28, 2024

  KIGALI, Rwanda — In the summer of 2018, inside a national arena that felt more like a small-college gym, the NBA commissioner shot free throws with the president of Rwanda.… more ›

• The age of gerontocracy is nothing new

  July 21, 2024

  The fear of a gerontocracy – the dominance of politics by old men – as well as an appreciation of the benefits of geriatric wisdom, both found favour in the… more ›

• Macron Is Destroying His Democracy to Save It

  June 15, 2024

  The French Revolution may have been one of the world’s first experiments in mass democracy, but those governing France have long had a problem with the idea. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/13/macron-france-parliament-election-democracy-far-right-le-pen/ more ›

• Youth in Africa: How Africa’s post conflict regimes handle the African Millennias (Norglobal)

  January 8, 2024

  The population in sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing and the youngest in the world, yet the politicians ruling them are typically among the oldest. This observation is the starting… more ›

• A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

  December 1, 2023

  There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/ more ›

• Assembly Guide Overview

  September 17, 2023

  The Assembling an Assembly Guide is a resource for any institution, organisation, city administration, or policy maker interested in running a Citizens’ Assembly. https://assemblyguide.demnext.org/ more ›