
How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind
The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.
The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.
Today Benjamin is widely esteemed as one of the foremost cultural critics and theorists of the 20th century. But his career was uneven and marked by failure. In 1925, after the faculty of philosophy in Frankfurt rejected his enigmatic study of German Baroque drama and dashed his hopes for an academic career, he found himself adrift, with little assurance of a regular income. But this failure also brought freedom.
Congratulations to CES Faculty Associate Vincent Pons who was named 2023 Best Young French Economist together with Julia Cagé by Le Monde.
El profesor de Harvard, coautor de ‘Cómo mueren las democracias’, analiza las claves de una época política turbulenta.
Congratulations to CES Resident Faculty Daniel Ziblatt and Faculty Associate Michèle Lamont, who were elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A new interview by CES Resident Faculty Daniel Ziblatt (in German) that was published in several German new outlets. "Democracies have the ability to self-correct. Autocracies do not." – Daniel Ziblatt
“As a historian of the British Empire, I felt as if this book was teaching me things about those entities and the nature of the global interconnected world that I have not known before.”
Derek Penslar discusses his forthcoming book Zionism: An Emotional State in this podcast.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says fights in homeland, Ukraine are linked by desire for democracy, independence from Russia