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Daniel Ziblatt
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Tyranny of the Minority
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
2023
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How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
2019
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How Do We Survive the Constitution?
In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.
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Corey Robin
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Democracy and Its Discontents
A consideration of four recent books that attempt to contend with the rise of Trumpism at home and abroad.
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Adam Tooze
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Democracy Is Norm Erosion
Sometimes you have to break the rules to create a more democratic system.
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Corey Robin
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Democracy Without the People
Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.
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Thea Riofrancos
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Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist
In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.
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Andrew Marantz
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Ask the ‘Coupologists’: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?
Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.
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Joshua Zeitz
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Ryan McMaken
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Donald Trump, The Resistance, and the Limits of Normcore Politics
There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed.
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Matthew Yglesias
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Court-Packing is the Democrats’ Nuclear Option for the Supreme Court
Why an FDR plan from the 1930s is suddenly popular again.
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Dylan Matthews
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Vox
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July 2, 2018