US Special Operations Command continues to thrive. Its budget, its personnel numbers, and just about any other measure you might choose (from missions to global reach) continue to rise.
‘What’s radical one year may be accepted the next.’
"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."
One of the main reasons liberal democracy appears to be imploding is that the liberal international capitalist order on which it has been based for the last seventy years is imploding.
Arendt’s fundamental insight was that humans are not born equal; rather, a political construction is needed to create equality of public voice. Review.
A review of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, (Blackwell's 2012).
Do Democrats and Republicans quarrel with each other in front of TV cameras? Obviously yes – but it’s merely a mock lovers’ spat crafted for public consumption.
The furore over the new Labour NEC Code of Conduct on Antisemitism.
It’s entirely logical for narcissists to seek alliances with authoritarian leaders.
Amidst the currently contested conceptions of democracy, a review of Michael Schudson’s The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2015).
