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About Thomas Cushman

Thomas Cushman is professor of sociology at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. His most recent book is (as editor) A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq (University of California Press, 2005).

Articles by Thomas Cushman

Wednesday 9th November

Democracy and its enemies: a response to Barnett & Hilton

Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton’s depiction of democracy is too indulgent of the Islamist threat and too in thrall to leftwing pieties to be convincing, says Thomas Cushman.

Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton open their essay, “Democracy and openDemocracy”, by specifying three forces that threaten democracy in the modern world: “terrorism, fundamentalism, and the imposition of the neo-liberal form of globalisation”.

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