There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...

My recent column made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the reelection of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era; that the phase of history that began in ...

Ben Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford's Nuffield College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the host of the What's Wrong with Democracy?

America is a liberal democracy. Its greatest blessing is freedom, the right to live and act in accordance with one’s conscience. This freedom unleashes boundless energy and creativity, and, along with ...

Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America’s most famous Black fascist. Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed him to pass for white, which he did for nearly his ...

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...

In 2023, David P. Gushee published Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies. Gushee’s diagnosis was familiar – that conservative and fundamentalist White Christian movements in America and ...

Well, it's that time of year, you know, the swashbuckling, teeth-grinding, fist-clenching, time of campaign season. In less than two months, we, the people, can have our voices heard by the way we ...

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...