MAGA might seem like an anti-intellectual movement, but conservatism’s past and present thinkers are deeply complicit in it.

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (2025, Bloomsbury). Her previous book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020, Bloomsbury), formed the basis ...

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing The Economic Foundations of American Democracy By Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath • Harvard University Press • 2022 • 640 pages • $39.95 Allegiance ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor), and Claire Schnatterbeck (Assistant Editor).

In the 1930s, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced the monumental challenge of restoring Americans’ faith in the economy. Agriculture and heavy manufacturing were at the heart of ...

With the end of the Cold War, a wave of optimism emerged that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes would soon give way to democratic ones. United States foreign policy sought to encourage that trend ...

President Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly declared that “America is back.” The rest of the world is not so sure. Washington would promote multilateralism and champion democracy; American ...

Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World by Joshua Kurlantzick • Oxford University Press • 2022 • 560 pages • $30 Policymakers and advocates on all ...

In the fall of 2017, as I was easing into my new role as head of the National Women’s Law Center, women’s lives were suddenly at the center of political, social, and legal debate. Household names in ...

What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges • Yale University Press • 2024 • 336 pages • $28 The 2010 Arab Spring was a moment of real hope for ...

Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech • Marion Laboure and Nicolas Deffrennes • Harvard University Press • 2022 • 288 pages • $35 It’s hard to prove this beyond anecdotes, but a ...