Essay Winning isn鈥檛 everything, especially in democracy November 08, 2023 Trump responded to his loss in the 2020 election by being the epitome of a 鈥渟ore loser鈥�: by denying that he had lost and doubling down on baseless conspiracy theories of electoral fraud. He is not alone. There are multiple examples of sore losers in US politics today. Read More
Podcast To Build a Black Future October 10, 2023 When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. Read More
Essay Renewing the civic bargain September 27, 2023 Democracy today is in trouble: we see free governments wobbling, political tribalism everywhere, and rising authoritarianism. America, once the showcase of democracy done right now seems a system gone wrong. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Darkened Light of Faith September 20, 2023 Listen to a sample chapter from The Darkened Light of Faith 鈥� a powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy. . Read More
Essay Democracy鈥檚 real deal September 15, 2023 Was the US Consitution a masterpiece? The common answer has frequently been an unabashed 鈥測es,鈥� but many critics now complain that the Constitution was fatally flawed from the beginning. Read More
Podcast Listen in: To Build a Black Future September 14, 2023 Listen to a sample chapter from To Build a Black Future 鈥� an incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care. Read More
Podcast 24/7 Politics September 07, 2023 As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Read More
Essay Liberalism鈥檚 back to the future moment August 23, 2023 Today liberalism faces a global challenge from populism. To successfully meet this challenge, liberals must return to certain features of liberalism common in the nineteenth century but largely absent since WWII. Read More
Interview Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi on The Individualists May 01, 2023 Libertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to progressive causes, from women鈥檚 rights and the fight against slavery to anti-colonialism and Irish emancipation. Read More
Essay On the tactics of modern strongmen April 27, 2023 Dictators have been changing. They did not loosen their grip over the population鈥攆ar from it, they worked to design more effective instruments of control. But they did so while acting the part of democrats. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Algorithms for the People March 15, 2023 Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. Police forces use them to decide where to send police officers, judges to decide whom to release on bail, welfare agencies to decide which children are at risk of abuse, and Facebook and Google to rank content and distribute ads. Read More
Essay Why democracy belongs in artificial intelligence February 21, 2023 Most of the real harms AI systems can cause鈥攂ut also the opportunities they can afford鈥攁re nothing to do with robots taking over the world or self-generating AI systems. They are to do with what, how, when, and why we should use powerful predictive tools in the decision-making systems of our political, social, and economic organizations. Read More
Podcast Pandemic Politics February 20, 2023 COVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable.聽 Read More
Essay The curse of long-ruling autocrats January 18, 2023 In October 2022, during the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping was 鈥渞eelected鈥� as the party鈥檚 chairman, paving his way for a third term as China鈥檚 top political leader. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Karen Greenberg on the long legacy from 9/11 to 1/6 January 05, 2023 The events of both September 11, 2001 and January 6, 2021 were unprecedented in our nation鈥檚 history. In this video from Karen Greenberg, we can see how increased secrecy and decreased accountability within American politics post 9/11 fostered a political climate in which Trumpism was able to thrive. Read More
