Standing, Kneeling, and Absence: Is Democracy Backsliding? by: Zach Witkin @ Brown University
Following the election of Donald Trump, many of those who oppose him were, and still are, concerned about the future of democracy. The populist...
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Campaign Finance as Stealth Authoritarianism by Rachel Bennetts @ Boston University
In his essay “Stealth Authoritarianism”, Ozan Varol argues that leaders can maintain the facade of democratic values and institutions, while...
Free speech has taken a knee, but Trump doesn’t really want it to stand tall. By Gianpaulo Pons at Boston University.
Free speech, in any form of expression, has been a heavily contested topic this weekend in regards to the National Football League (NFL). It...
Authoritarian practices of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. By Alexander Henshaw-Greene at Boston University.
Stealth Authoritarianism, as expressed by Ozan Varol, refers to regime practices that make a country less democratic without outright violating...
Is the U.S. in the throngs of totalitarianism? According to history (and Arendt), not yet. By Amalia Perez at Brown University.
More than half a century after being written, Hannah Arendt's hypotheses explaining the roots and contours of totalitarianism remain,...
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