Democracy Finds a Champion in a Giant of American Journalism
I remember, as an undergraduate, reading Hedrick Smith’s dispatches to the New York Times from Saigon, Paris, Cairo and [...]
Edging Beyond Either/Or
The COVID pandemic has presented our species with a uniquely far-reaching and thoroughgoing challenge. My point here i [...]
Mobs, Tribes, and Problem-Solvers
For many of us, the most enduring memory of the second Trump impeachment trial will undoubtedly center on scenes of our [...]
Pronouns, Presidents, and the Res Publica
In this day and age, a blog post about pronouns might be expected to focus on the issue of personal gender pronouns. He [...]
What Senates are Supposed to be all About
Cicero Addressing the Roman Senate The Georgia runoff elections for two U.S. Senate seats, combined with several sitting [...]
Georgia on Our Minds
Sherman's March to the Sea (1864) In the six weeks remaining before the January 5 Georgia runoff elections, you will ver [...]
The SENATE and the COURT
In a proceeding unlike any previously witnessed in its history, the U.S. Senate, just a week before a presidentia [...]
STEADY AS SHE GOES
Our poor old ship of state has been battered over the past few months by cataclysms of dizzying variety and historic pro [...]
Moving SCOTUS Beyond the Tipping Point?
As the U.S. Senate takes up the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, I am going to let others explore t [...]
“Democracy cannot succeed without both contest and deliberation”
Those are Jane Mansbridge’s words, taken from an interview she recently granted the Harvard Gazette. Mansbridge, the Ad [...]
