The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

President Donald Trump, and in the roughly 24 hours since he has taken office, he has very publicly claimed for himself an ...

Is Trump’s, Musk’s, and Putin’s coup against democracy complete? Under the guise of a 44-year campaign to reverse the ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Like Trump, Kennedy for years has wielded a firehose of falsehoods across multiple fronts and has engaged in assorted ...

So one way to think about attention is the flash beam of thought. That’s a common trope. There’s a William James description ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

Wagner has authored a book themed ... and democracy there developed during the time of the Weimar Republic. This democratic experience was again put to use after the end of World War II.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...

That combination always spells trouble, and no society can long last with this two-pronged assault. Revel was rather ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy ...