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"Europe is presently adrift on shifting tides rather than in control of its direction," writes Art Goldhammer, CES Local Affiliate, in The Toqueville Review.

"The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw," says CES Resident Faculty Peter Gordon in recent article in Boston Review.

Daniel Ziblatt on the consequences of Trump's re-election for democracy and the global rise of autocracy.

Daniel Ziblatt analyzed the international implications of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 win at a Wednesday afternoon Weatherhead Center for International Affairs forum.

Stephen Ansolabehere says voting is alive and well in the US. That doesn't mean it can't be improved.

Maya Jasanoff launches a course that views the present as wholly connected to the past.

Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky on the U.S. presidential election, the threat posed by authoritarianism, and the five pathways available to defend democracy.

CES Resident Faculty Derek Penslar traces history of group in U.S., discusses why many wrestling with what it means for Israel, their own place in nation’s culture.

Climate activist urges people to counter a culture run on fear and fossil fuel.

CES Resident Faculty Peter E. Gordon analyzes how classical composers explored music’s capacity after the Holocaust to commemorate historical trauma without permitting horrific events to take on the allure of facile beauty.