There are a number of things that could be said about the nuts and bolts of Steven Levitsky’s and Daniel Ziblatt’s book How Democracies Die (Crown: 2018). For example, one could push…

Sam and I wrap up our third season by considering some of the legacies of the Protestant Reformation: from democracy and free inquiry to religious pluralism and secularization to the notion…

Chris Gehrz of CWC the Radio Show joins the blog scene The role of the humanities in the university and why we’ve failed Two visions of democracy and why one…

NYC vs. MFA: Two Literary Cultures that together define American literary fiction Why monarchism might be the only hope for Democracy Francis Fukuyama speculates on the conspicuous absence of a…

A couple stories have been making the Internet rounds of late, making college teachers everywhere shake our heads (after all, I are one) and drawing forth the usual commonplaces about…