Democracy: All Articles

Is There an Israeli Future? Post-Election Reflections on Minister Lapid, “Riki Cohen from Hadera” and the Pursuit of a Normal Society
04/05/2013 — Michael Weinman
Between Principle and Practice (Part 2): The New School for Social Research
03/18/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Between Principle and Practice (Part I): Obama and Cynical Reasoning
03/11/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Civil Rights Ghosts Haunt Capitol Hill
03/04/2013 — Jo Freeman
Democratic Development in South Africa? Mamphela Ramphele’s New Party
02/28/2013 — Daryl Glaser
The Upcoming Italian Elections and the Seamy Side of Satire
02/22/2013 — Andrea Hajek
Climate Change and the Art of Protest
02/20/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Teaching Us To Be Americans Again: The DREAMers On Their Long March To Immigration Reform
02/18/2013 — Susan C. Pearce
Class Matters: The Not So Hidden Theme of the State of the Union
02/13/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Moving the Center Left on Issues Foreign and Domestic: Anticipating the State of Union Address
02/11/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Guns and the Art of Protest: Thinking about What is to be Done on the Left
02/01/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Protesting at the 2013 Inauguration
01/24/2013 — Jo Freeman
Against Cornell West / For Barack Hussein Obama: MLK’s Bible, the Inauguration and the Left
01/23/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Barack Obama: Equality, Diversity and the American Transformation
01/21/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Fiscal Cliff: American Follies Seen from Abroad
01/10/2013 — Lukasz Pawlowski
The Election of Women: 2012
01/08/2013 — Jo Freeman
Testimony of a Gun-Death Survivor
12/27/2012 — Richard Alba
Sandy Hook and Hitler
12/24/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
After Newtown: A Discussion about Gun Controls and Popular Culture
12/18/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
After Newtown: A Dialogue on the Left
12/17/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Occupy the White House
12/14/2012 — Vince Carducci
The Reagan Revolution Ends! Obama’s Proceeds!
12/08/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Social Media and Protest in the Age of Globalization
11/26/2012 — Andrea Hajek
All-Consuming Liberalism
11/23/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
After 2012: The Troubled Values of the American Right
11/21/2012 — Aron Hsiao
Change is a “Right” Thing Now
11/12/2012 — Lukasz Pawlowski
At Home, Abroad: Election Day
11/09/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Omar Khadr’s Canadian Homecoming
10/19/2012 — Christiane Wilke
A Dialogue on Politics, Anti-Intellectuals and Ideologues on the Occasion of the Ryan–Biden Debate
10/15/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Truth in Germany – from University to Euro
09/20/2012 — Douglas Voigt
Holland Playing Safe: Pro-EU Parties Win the Dutch Elections
09/14/2012 — Andrea Hajek
The Marikana Strike Killings, South Africa
09/13/2012 — Daryl Glaser
The Three Stigmata of Todd Akin
09/12/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
9/11: A Post on Memory and Forgetting
09/11/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Pussy Riot vs. The Pseudo Religious of Eastern Europe
09/04/2012 — Tomasz Kitlinski
Conservative Principles vs. Conservative Practices: A Continuing Discussion
08/28/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Politics as an End in Itself: Occupy Wall Street, Debt and Electoral Politics
08/10/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Politics as an End in Itself: New Media and the Persistence of OWS
08/08/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Reflections on Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day
08/06/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
A Polish Cultural War: The Battle over the History and Education
07/23/2012 — Malgorzata Bakalarz
Partisan Change
07/16/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
Chief Justice Roberts and the Health of the American Body Politic
07/02/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: Cooptation?
06/16/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: On Unions
06/15/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Sports in Politics?
06/14/2012 — Tim Rosenkranz
OWS and the Arab Spring: The New “New Social Movements”
05/18/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
German Provincial Elections: On to the Post-Macho Welfare State, Pirates Included
05/16/2012 — Christiane Wilke
Reflections on the Elections in Greece
05/14/2012 — Minas Samatas
Election in France: A European Roosevelt?
05/09/2012 — Jean-Luis Fabiani
OWS and the Power of a Photo
04/23/2012 — Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
The French Presidential Election: In Search of Time Past
04/21/2012 — Jean-Luis Fabiani
The Aggressive Cynicism of Mitt Romney and His Party: A Cynical Society Update Part 2
04/06/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Hoodie Nights: Trayvon Martin and the Racial Politics of Small Things
04/02/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
A Cynical Society Update: Part 1
03/30/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The OWS Think Tank: Then and Now
03/26/2012 — Tim Weldon
Making Sense of Resistance: An Invitation to a Book Party and Discussion
03/23/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
OWS at Six Months: Reflections on the Winter Occupation
03/19/2012 — Pamela Brown
Mandates and Their Foes
03/08/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
Putin Wins?
03/05/2012 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
Between Left and Right: Reflections on the Position of Paul Gottfried
03/04/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Towards the Good Society: A Conservative View
03/01/2012 — Alvino-Mario Fantini
The Right vs. Conservatives vs. The Left
02/23/2012 — Paul E. Gottfried
The Conservative Mind = The Reactionary Mind?
02/17/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Where are the Conservative Intellectuals? II
02/14/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
From Solidarity 2.0 to Civil Society 1.0?
02/08/2012 — Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Between Radical Hopes and Practical Projects: Reflections on the Flying Seminar Session with Bill Zimmerman
02/07/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Romania’s Winter of Discontent
02/02/2012 — Elisabeta Pop
The State of the Union: Opening the Debate of 2012
01/25/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
President Obama vs. the Republican Congress
01/20/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Thinking about Obama on MLK Day: Governing with Republicans?
01/16/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Vaclav Havel: The End of an Era
01/10/2012 — Martin Butora
Citizen Havel Leaves
12/22/2011 — Kacper Szulecki
What Václav Havel Meant to Me
12/21/2011 — Hana Cervinkova
Russia’s Democratic Ideas and Practices
12/15/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
Brokered Democracy
12/08/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
The Occupation of the New School as a Childhood Ailment of the OWS
12/07/2011 — Andrew Arato
Occupy New School: A Dissenting Opinion
12/06/2011 — Nancy Fraser
Occupy New School?
12/01/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Policing and OWS: A Think Tank Discussion
11/26/2011 — Aaron Bornstein
Glenn Beck, Prophet?
11/21/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Spirit of ’76: Occupy Philadelphia, Voicelessness, and the Challenge of Growing the Occupy Wall Street Movement
11/18/2011 — E. Colin Ruggero
Mayor Bloomberg versus Occupy Wall Street
11/15/2011 — Daniel Sherwood
The Clear, Present and Positive Goals of Occupy Wall Street
11/11/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Toward Sustainable Occupations by Amateurs: Reflections on the OWS – Shiroto no Ran Flying Seminar
11/09/2011 — Kei Nakagawa
The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street: Unhappy Warriors
11/04/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
NYPD, “Vagrants” and Occupy Wall Street
11/01/2011 — Harrison Schultz
Occupy Mall Street
10/27/2011 — Anette Baldauf
OWS and the Recovery of Democracy
10/25/2011 — Elzbieta Matynia
The View From Zuccotti Park: On the Post-Political Thrust of OWS
10/24/2011 — Harrison Schultz
Occupy Wall Street, The New School and The Flying Seminar
10/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Flying Seminar and Additional Reflections on the GOP, BHO and OWS
10/21/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Republicans, Obama, and Occupy Wall Street
10/20/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Elections in Poland: More than the Lesser of Two Evils?
10/17/2011 — Nahed Habiballah
In Review: OWS, The Ground Zero Occupation
10/14/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Our Heroes? Responsibility and War
10/12/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Things Come Together: Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Elections and Khodorkovsky
10/10/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Hunger Strike in Albanian Mines: A Quest for Justice and Sound Public Policy
10/07/2011 — Ermira Danaj
Slacktivism Matters
10/06/2011 — Jenny Davis
A Specter is Haunting the Powers That Be: Thinking about Korea while Looking at Wall Street
10/03/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The People Should Lead: The Meaning of the Occupy Wall Street Movement
09/29/2011 — Scott Beck
The Megapower Elite
09/28/2011 — Eugene Halton
Two Deaths
09/26/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Problems with Polling
09/23/2011 — Tim Rosenkranz
Against “Tax Loopholes”?
09/22/2011 — Michael Corey
Teaching the Classics: Reflections of an Ex-Marxist Wannabe
09/20/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Civil Protest in Israel: Reflections of a Science Fiction Fan
09/16/2011 — Nachman Ben Yehuda
Can Washington Matter? The Case Against the Supercommittee
09/14/2011 — Casey Armstrong
New York, N.Y., September 11, 2011
09/12/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
President Barack Obama: There is Method to his Madness
09/09/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Forgetting 9/11
09/07/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
In Review: On Labor Day
09/05/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Does Freedom Trickle Down?
09/02/2011 — Scott Beck
In Review: Cornel West, Barack Obama and the King Memorial
08/27/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial: “I Have a Dream”
08/26/2011 — Michael Corey
Who Won the Libyan war?
08/24/2011 — Benoit Challand
In Review: Democracy and Art for Art Sake (Without Elitism)
08/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Two Forms of (Political) Fallibilism
08/16/2011 — Michael Weinman
DC Week in Review: The American Political Landscape
08/15/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Have You Ever Been Experienced?
08/11/2011 — Eugene Halton
Thinking like a Terrorist
08/10/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Week in Review: Democracy in Crisis
08/09/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Haiti Reporters
08/04/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
Bipartisanship’s Last Stand: What does the Debt Deal mean for Legislators?
08/03/2011 — Casey Armstrong
The Tents Movement Uprising in Israel
08/02/2011 — Irit Dekel
Truth and Politics and The Crisis in Washington
08/01/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Loading the Debt Problem onto the Backs of the Middle Class
07/29/2011 — Richard Alba
The Suckers March: Show Us the Cuts
07/28/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Haiti: Resilience against Hopelessness
07/27/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
Means Testing: The GOP’s Surprising Class Warfare
07/25/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Pushing Back Against the Right’s Narrative on the Budget
07/20/2011 — Richard Alba
Red Jobs, Blue Jobs
07/15/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Uruguay at the Crossroads: No Justice without Development
07/13/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
American Fascism?
07/11/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Week in Review: Democracy and Diversity and Free Public Action
07/08/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Iran: The Meaning of Free Politics
07/06/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Who is an American? Reflections on Jose Antonio Vargas
07/05/2011 — Tim Rosenkranz
DC Week in Review: Two Cheers for Hypocrisy!
07/04/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: A Play in Three Acts?
07/01/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
What do Mormons, Muslims, Atheists, Gays, and Lesbians Have in Common?
06/30/2011 — Michael Corey
What’s in a Name? Or, the Political Significance of Elmer
06/29/2011 — Michael Weinman
Marriage, Equality, and Dignity
06/28/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Medicare: Redux or Redo?
06/27/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
DC Week in Review: War and Peace
06/24/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Obama on Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal
06/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Atrocity and Epistemology: Cruel Claims in Troubled Times
06/21/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
The Show Must Go On
06/14/2011 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
The Weiner Follies: The Personification of Politics
06/13/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
DC Week in Review: DSK and the Presumption of Guilt
06/10/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Grace Lee Boggs’s The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
06/09/2011 — Vince Carducci
Elections in Peru, the Runoff
06/08/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Presumed Innocence
06/06/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Letter from Paris: Thinking about the Middle East, North Africa and Central Europe
06/01/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Memorial Day Reflections
05/30/2011 — Michael Corey
DC Week in Review: Thinking about Public and Private at 37,000 Feet
05/29/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Jürgen Habermas on Power to the Polls
05/25/2011 — Tim Rosenkranz
Reflections on President Obama’s Speech on the Middle East and North Africa
05/19/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Two Slaves and the Capacity for Indignation
05/16/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Two Weeks in Review: Obama Kills Osama! Victory! The War on Terror is Over! Let’s Think.
05/13/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Easy Targets
05/03/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Junk Politics
04/27/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
Positive Prospects in Tunisia and Egypt
04/26/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Left, Right and the Creative Center: Understanding the Political Landscape in the Age of Obama
04/21/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Barack Obama and Political Transformation
04/19/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
President Obama on Taxing and Spending, and the American Center
04/14/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Tea Party is No Thing
04/13/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
DC Week in Review: A Post of Laughter and Forgetting
04/08/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Live from Gaza
04/07/2011 — Benoit Challand
DC Week in Review: Libya and Emotional Politics
04/02/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
War Games
04/01/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Anger, Hate, Demonization, Villains, and Politics
03/31/2011 — James M. Jasper
Emotions and Politics
03/30/2011 — James M. Jasper
Obama’s Speech on Libya
03/29/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Libya and the Mission Creep I Hope For
03/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
President Obama in Brazil: A View from Brazil
03/22/2011 — Sergio Tavolaro
Institutionalized Racism?
03/16/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Revolution in Egypt?
03/07/2011 — Andrew Arato
The Return of Revolutions
— Andrew Arato
DC Week in Review: Civility Matters
03/04/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
2011: Youth, not Religion / Spontaneity, not Aid
03/03/2011 — Benoit Challand
The Counter-Power of Civil Society in the Middle East
03/02/2011 — Benoit Challand
Hate Speech or Biting Political Provocation?
03/01/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Libertarianism versus Workers’ Rights in Wisconsin
02/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Egypt: Hope against Skepticism
02/21/2011 — Hazem Kandil
Workers’ Rights and Democracy in Madison
02/20/2011 — Chad Alan Goldberg
The Wisconsin Protests: Cairo on the Isthmus?
02/19/2011 — Anna Paretskaya
A Baffling Exodus in Tunisia: Exit or Voice or Both?
02/17/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Who Lost Egypt?
02/16/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Democracy, Israel and Egypt
02/15/2011 — Nahed Habiballah
The Week in Pre and Re-view: Revolution in Egypt and Beyond
02/14/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Tunisia and Egypt: Questioning Insurrections
02/12/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Egypt, Squaring the Circle: A View from Poland and South Africa
02/11/2011 — Elzbieta Matynia
Obama and Egypt
02/09/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Revolutionary Failure in Egypt?
02/08/2011 — Hazem Kandil
Week in Review: Egypt, Glenn Beck and Democratic Transition
02/07/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Beck and Call
02/02/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
The Hungarian Shock: The Transition from Democracy?
02/01/2011 — Andras Bozoki
DC Week in Review: Egypt, The State of the Union, Between Past and Future
01/31/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Egypt Considered Deliberately
01/30/2011 — Hazem Kandil
Transition to Democracy in the Arab World?
01/29/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Obama vs. Ryan vs. Bachmann
01/26/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
WikiLeaks and the Politics of Gestures
01/25/2011 — Daniel Dayan
Security versus Democracy in America
01/04/2011 — Martin Plot
DC Year in Review: Democracy in America
01/02/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Time to Face Facts
12/21/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Politically Correct
12/20/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Week in Review: Democratic Ideals and Realities
12/10/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Democratic Party’s Over?
12/05/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The New York Times in the Americas
12/02/2010 — Martin Plot
Plutocracy in America
11/29/2010 — Martin Plot
Opposition and Truth
11/21/2010 — Martin Plot
Means without Ends?
11/16/2010 — Kimberly Spring
In Johannesburg: The Struggle for Democracy all Over Again
11/08/2010 — Elzbieta Matynia
Have we Found the Conservative Intellectuals?
10/28/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Against Paranoia
10/24/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Where are the Conservative Intellectuals?
10/19/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Political Paranoia Threatens Healthy Democracy Here and Globally
10/15/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
From Liu Xiabo: A Seed of Strength for Chinese Political Protesters
10/11/2010 — Elzbieta Matynia
The Constitution and American Political Debate
09/26/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Politically Weighted Courts in Turkey “Bad News” for Democracy
09/24/2010 — Andrew Arato
Clear and Present Danger?
08/24/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Far, Far Right Battles Reason with Fear-Mongering
08/23/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Health Care Debates Rages: the Sleeping Elephant Rears its Head
— Jeffrey C. Goldfarb