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An Open Letter to the Government of Hungary

An Open Letter to the Government of Hungary

April 3, 2017

CES joins leading social science institutions to preserve academic freedom in Hungary as the government moves to pass legislation to remove Central European University (CEU). #IstandwithCEU

It can’t happen here, probably

It can’t happen here, probably

in Harvard Gazette on February 23, 2017

Fascism is not taking root in the United States as it did in Europe’s fertile ground in the 1930s, but the ascendance of President Donald Trump and the early actions of his administration may move the United States in an authoritarian direction, a panel of Harvard historians told a a full house at CES.

The Democratic Recession

The Democratic Recession

Yascha Mounk in New America on February 10, 2017

In the second episode of "The Good Fight," Yascha Mounk lays out the best-case scenario for the Trump years and speaks to Larry Diamond, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, about the global recession of democracy--and how to build the kind of coalition that can beat back authoritarian populists.

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