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Democracy

From Erdoğan’s Turkey to Trump’s America

What we can learn from a parallel history

February 7, 2025 • by Phyllis Jeffrey

In 2002, voters in Turkey—reeling from an economic crisis that halved the value of the Turkish lira and produced a 7.5 percent drop in GDP—elected a new party by a plurality: 34.3 percent of the vote. Though hardly a resounding mandate, the margin enabled the party, an Islamist offshoot led by ...

From Erdoğan’s Turkey to Trump’s America

Podcast

Extremism in Defense of Liberty Is No Vice

April 19, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Matthew Dallek about his new book, "Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right"...

Politics

Is Ecuador on the Road to Revolution?

Although $36 billion is still missing, socialism is on the rise in Ecuador

March 28, 2023 • by Paloma Velasco

Even right-wing fortresses such as Guayaquil, Ecuador’s economic capital, elected a leftist mayor for the first time in 30 years. ...

History

Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror

Its polarized culture reinforced the destructive energy of an increasingly polarized politics

April 8, 2021 • by Helmut W. Smith

"It would be too much to say that the Weimar Republic fell to Nazism because of its bifurcated culture. But the high culture of Weimar was not a supporting pillar of democracy either. Instead, Weimar’s polarized culture reinforced the destructive energy of its increasingly polarized politics. " - Helmut W. ...

History

Insurrection and Apocalypse: Staring Down Monsters, from the Middle Ages to America Today

How the medieval understanding of redemptive violence can illuminate the impulses of some Christian conservatives today

February 11, 2021 • by Jehangir Yezdi Malegam

Nine hundred years ago, on April 25, 1112 – an Easter Sunday – a mob in the French town of Laon rose up in a carnival of vandalism and homicide. Witnesses describe a world turned upside down. Merchants murdered the local bishop and set fire to the town’s cathedral. Serfs ...

Insurrection and Apocalypse: Staring Down Monsters, from the Middle Ages to America Today

Education

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

College professors and college administrations have to do better–we are losing these kids to extremism

February 3, 2021 • by Claire Potter

"We have a tough job in the next four years as we try to rebuild a more inclusive and truly democratic national conversation." - Claire Potter...

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From Erdoğan’s Turkey to Trump’s America

What we can learn from a parallel history

Extremism in Defense of Liberty Is No Vice

Is Ecuador on the Road to Revolution?

Although $36 billion is still missing, socialism is on the rise in Ecuador

Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror

Its polarized culture reinforced the destructive energy of an increasingly polarized politics

Insurrection and Apocalypse: Staring Down Monsters, from the Middle Ages to America Today

How the medieval understanding of redemptive violence can illuminate the impulses of some Christian conservatives today

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

College professors and college administrations have to do better–we are losing these kids to extremism

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