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The Year of Elections Has Been Good for Democracy: But the Biggest Test Will Come in America (Francis Fukuyama)
Liberals have engaged in a lot of catastrophic thinking during this “year of elections.” Many feared that authoritarian and populist politicians, from Hungary’s Viktor Orban to India’s Narendra Modi, would consolidate their gains by increasing their shares of the vote. According to Freedom House’s February 2024 Freedom in the World analysis, the world has been in a …
How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy (Samantha Power)
When U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the United States had just witnessed four of the most turbulent years in recent memory, culminating in the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Without a doubt, American democracy had been shown to be far more fragile than it was when Biden …
The Populist Phantom: Threats to Democracy Start at the Top (Larry M. Bartels)
Many countries have been roiled in recent years by what is often called a “populist wave.” In the Anglophone world, this new era began in 2016 with the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Media and political elites shocked by these events tied …
How to End the Democratic Recession: The Fight Against Autocracy Needs a New Playbook (Larry Diamond)
On August 5, following weeks of mass student protests, a dictator fell in the world’s eighth most populous country. Amid wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the escalating danger of a wider conflict in the Middle East, and the twists and turns of the U.S. presidential race, the sudden resignation and flight into exile of Bangladesh’s …
The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu (Victor Davis Hanson)
Ordeal After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021. The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when he would be forced out …
Niall Ferguson: Israel’s Iran Strike—and America’s Strategic Weakness (Niall Ferguson)
“Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades.” That was the confident declaration made by Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in a 7,000-word essay published in Foreign Affairs one year ago. Unfortunately for Sullivan, the article was sent to the printer on October 2, 2023. Five days later, …
AI, Society, and Democracy: Just Relax (John H. Cochrane)
The author argues that law and regulation have never diagnosed and prevented social, political, and economic ills of new technology. AI is no different. AI regulation poses a greater threat to democracy than AI, as governments are anxious to use regulation to censor information. Free competition in civil society, media, and academia will address any …
A distillation of nonsense (John H. Cochrane)
New Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu, interviewed at the Times of India, courtesy Marginal Revolution Given the potential for AI to exacerbate inequality, how can we redirect technology? We need to actively steer technological development in a direction that benefits broader swathes of humanity. This require a pro-human approach that prioritises enhancing worker productivity and autonomy, supporting …
Restoring America’s Common Enterprise (Peter Berkowitz)
The United States is nine days away from a portentous presidential election that, however it turns out, promises to leave around half the nation believing that catastrophe has been narrowly averted and the rest believing that all is lost. Desperate hopes and apocalyptic fears suffuse the electorate. Significant swathes of the right and left – …