Facing Tyranny," executive producer Jeff Bieber and Bard College President Leon Botstein reflect on the political ...

Lisa Miller clearly comes to condemn Trump, not to praise him. Yet her polemic captures a common justification of his administration’s violent, cruel, and authoritarian ethnonationalism. This striking ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ...

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

The author laid the groundwork for his thesis that judges, whom he calls “the selectorate”, have toppled the people in ...

In recent years, Political Science has been deeply concerned with the global shift toward authoritarianism, posing ...