Bringing the Parties Back In: A Review of Hollow Parties
Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld, political scientists at Johns Hopkins University and Colgate University, respectfully, have written a searching and scorching overview of the state of the…
Theorizing Without Theory: A Review of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It. Yascha Mounk. Harvard University Press, 2019. The wave of right-wing nationalism…
Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy
Sinclair Lewis had an ambivalent relationship with America. His Midwestern upbringing perfectly situated him to understand the American experiment, but he found it wanting in many ways. His take on…
The Use and Abuse of “Political Correctness”
A consistent defense of the uncivil rhetoric at the heart of the Trump campaign is an appeal to being politically incorrect. The idea is that liberal politicians…