Civility and Its Exceptions

by | Jun 30, 2021 | Civil Rights, Uncategorized

By Hannah R. Pitney I have always believed that America needs more civility. During the Trump Administration especially, I thought there was a general lack of decency. I remember a moment during the first 2020 presidential debate when I thought to myself, “How is it...

Freedom Train

by | Jun 28, 2021 | China, Democracy

David Dreier, “Freedom Train,” World Affairs Vol. 172, No. 1 (SUMMER 2009), pp. 54-63. We have come a long way since 1989, that year of miracles when we felt, at least for a brief moment, that something fundamental about human freedom had been decided and...

The Politics of History

by | Jun 27, 2021 | Uncategorized

Nils Gilman at Noema: Popular concern with historical memory is a characteristic mark of a polity undergoing a transition from one era to another. As the Chinese-born Anglo-Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson observed in his classic “Imagined...