It is not surprising that climate change was identified as one of the initial pieces of the Social Science Research Council’s Anxieties of Democracy program. Climate change is an ever-increasing threat. International a ...

Three Elements of Modern Democracy Before I get to what I mean by our democracy slipping away, I want to make three points about the nature of contemporary democracies. Firstly, modern democracy is constitutionally v ...

Charles Taylor gives us a long view of democracy as “constitutionally vulnerable” once political representation became its central feature, for from then on democracies faced the unrelenting problem of deciding just ...