ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
This book would not have been written had Donald J. Trump not been elected president in November 2016. Like many Americans, I was surprised by this outcome and troubled by its implications for the United States and the world. It was the second major electoral surprise of that year, the first being Britain’s vote to …
Identity, Mr. Trump, and thymos. In the “Preface” to Fukuyama’s influential recent book,1 he wrote that the “book would not have been written had Donald J. Trump not been elected president in November 2016.”2 Fukuyama warns of “political decay,” though he holds that it had set in well before the shocks of Trump (and Brexit) …
In the fall of 2023, the Hoover Institution formed the Education Futures Council to review and analyze the state of public education in America. We on the Council recognize that the future of our country—its security, prosperity, and social cohesion—rests on the certainty of providing every child with access to a high-quality education. The Council …
Since Plato’s Republic 2,300 years ago, philosophers have understood the process by which demagogues come to power in free and fair elections, only to overthrow democracy and establish tyrannical rule. The process is straightforward, and we have now just watched it play out. NEW YORK – Like others, since late Tuesday night, my phone has …
Long seen as a core constituency of the Democratic Party, voters who belong to labor unions are increasingly being courted by both political parties. In this year’s presidential election, the campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have made high-profile efforts to win the support of union members. And union workers are a crucial voting bloc …
In the story of the Great Law of Peace, Hiawatha and the Peacemaker convince leaders of the Five Nations to literally bury the hatchet.Centuries before the creation of the United States and its Constitution, democracy had already taken root in North America—among a handful of Indigenous nations. Known as the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee, this league …
Since the beginning of this historic “year of elections” worldwide, it was apparent that none would be more important in shaping global democratic prospects than the presidential contest in the United States. Across a broad span of countries and partisan leanings, people who value freedom, democracy, and the rule of law—including leaders of government, opposition …
A “State of American Citizenship” survey paints a brighter picture than many would expect. This essay presents some of the highlights of a survey produced by the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Good American Citizenship, part of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions. To read the full report, click here; the summary and survey data are here. We are troubled but …
The Trump-Vance campaign culminated in a frenzy of abuse against women. In the end, none of it matteredThere was a wide gender gap in this US election, just as there was in 2016 and 2020. Kamala Harris enjoyed a 10-percentage point lead over Donald Trump among women voters, according to the exit polls. For the second …
Some of the President-elect’s biggest donors have been secretly funding UK thinktanksDonald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” was hardly politic but it’s a sentiment that chimes …