by Samuel Gilman | Dec 9, 2020 | Williams College
For some Americans, Canada appears to be a liberal—albeit slightly cold—utopia. While at the national level U.S. politics has fallen into dysfunction at best and downright authoritarianism at worst, Canada seems unscathed. There is some truth to this view: Freedom...
by Alex Mantilla | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
On December 21, 2018, news organizations ran abuzz with a bomb report — Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been re-diagnosed with cancer. The BBC published this headline: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Liberal America panics when she falls ill. But why is this the case? Why should the...
by Maggie Habib | Oct 22, 2020 | University of Chicago
On Monday, the Supreme Court split four to four in a decision on whether Pennsylvania absentee ballots received up to three days after election day could be counted, allowing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s earlier affirmative ruling to stand. The...
by Warren Epstein | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Difference between Scandal and Democratic Backsliding. Trudeau’s SNC-Lavalin scandal while undermining the rule of the law is not sufficient to claim that Canada is experiencing Democratic Backsliding. In his introduction to “Stealth Authoritarianism,” Ozan...
