Tag: democracy

• The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Machiavelli on how democracies die

  May 26, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/GbRXUTK Almost nothing stands the test of time. Machiavelli's writings are a rare exception. Why are we still talking about Machiavelli, nearly 500 years after his death? What is… more ›

• You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

  February 20, 2025

  If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what… more ›

• Welcome, Podcasters! White House Wants New Media at the Press Briefing

  January 29, 2025

  In the delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the seating chart is the be-all, end-all of status. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/media/white-house-press-briefing-podcasters-influencers.html more ›

• 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 ›