Anti-government protesters clash with police in Kiev on Feb. 20, 2014.Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images file If you're on Bluesky and follow me, you've probably seen that I'm writing.
Source: The Economist, Global Democracy Index, 2025 I haven't been doing due diligence in following news in other countries, in large part because developments in the United States exhaust so.
The Wall Street Journal has released a copy of the birthday letter that our president claims is a hoax. Do you all remember the fake one that circulated not long.
I don’t know if we have any readers who are based in or around Kansas City, Missouri, but I’ll be giving the 33rd annual Dr. Jerzy Hauptmann Distinguished Guest Lecture.
Public Domain I suspect everyone here understands — at least at some level — that we're seeing the apotheosis of a fifty-year movement to legalize and constitutionalize the Nixon administration..
That's been obvious to the rest of us for a very, very long time. But I suspect Pedophilegate may be an inflection point for at least some of his supporters..
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This week I attended a European workshop on reactionary theory and practice. I talked about two things: 1) the implications of the "deinstitutionalization" of U.S..
https://youtu.be/WvOZs3g3qIo?si=9rHJ0cOvpKwIeiws I've argued that the defects of the U.S. Constitution — as interpreted by the Roberts Court and exploited by the Trump administration — leave us no choice but to.
