Parker Berke

Problems Are Better Seen from the Outside: Three Reasons Why it Is Unfair to Blame Populations for Unintentionally Supporting Would-Be Autocrats

It is common for people to look at the destruction of foreign nations’ democratic institutions with confusion. They wonder how anyone could sit back and allow their government to be destroyed, or...

Why We Shouldn’t Take a Page from McConnell’s Playbook: How Expanding the US Supreme Court Will Always Lead to a Loss of Legitimacy

University of Chicago

During his first four years, President Trump appointed 226 judges to federal district, appeals, and supreme courts, almost three fourths as much as President Obama did during his whole two terms....