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Restoring liberal democracy is more important than winning policy fights

Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition

Finally, pundits are focusing less on policy victory or convincing voters that their political adversaries are evil, and more on the issue of whether our liberal democracy can be saved, and if so, how. Until recently, those at the forefront of the effort to preserve...

At this point, is there any reason NOT to label today’s GOP “fascist”?

Sep 4, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Journalism, Bias & Censored News

In Climate of Contempt I lament the way today’s political information environment breeds so much interpartisan fear, anger, and distrust that we “under-attend[] to the health of our democratic institutions.”[1] But one thing I did not do in my book was to...
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