America’s founding fathers read intently Gibbon's account of how Augustus eviscerated the Roman republic’s remaining premises even while persuading them that he was restoring their freedoms. Now we know why.
Before the end of 2017, the post-World War II global order of US hegemony will run its course, and authoritarianism will drive domestic policy.
Obama’s legacy is not just one of inauguration and restoration but also exhaustion.
When we fall asleep tonight, America will officially have installed, by design or chance (likely both), a puppet government.
American cities risk having global connections that are lambasted by those on the outside, and a growing insularity that separates them from their states.
Trump’s bombastic theatricality should be interpreted as a nostalgic return to the monopoly on self-evidence that founded the United States.
Donald Trump is dividing pro-lifers, many of whom feel misrepresented, and don't want the legal restrictions on abortions Trump may offer.
Trump is what happens when you fail to understand our global problems in their interconnected, systemic context.
“What is happening in the politics of the US particularly, but also in other countries, is that identity in a form of nationality or ethnicity or race has become a proxy for class.”
Uncertainty surrounds the US president-elect. Europe and Latin America must learn to defend the republican ideals of the French revolution, the associated liberties and cosmopolitanism in general, by themselves. Español Português
O presidente eleito Trump traz com ele a incerteza. A Europa e a América Latina devem aprender a defender, por elas mesmas, os ideais republicanos da revolução francesa, as liberdades e o cosmopolitismo. English Español
El presidente electo Trump es todo incertidumbre. Europa y América Latina deben aprender a defender, por sí solas, los ideales republicanos de la revolución francesa, las libertades y el cosmopolitismo. Português English
