Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what ...

Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What ...

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

Professor Ober will discuss the long history of approaches to the education of democratic citizens, the recent developments in civic education in colleges and universities, and why civic education ...

Democracy depends on the intelligence of the average voter. The founding fathers knew this very well. That’s why when this nation was formed, they set us up as a democratic republic, not a democracy.

Will Iran join China, Russia and the United States as a fourth major power on the world stage? Iran’s resilience in the face of the U.S.-Israeli war is already shifting the global balance of power, ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

As a parent of millennials, I can see firsthand the reality described in a recent Barron’s commentary by Randall W. Forsyth: The financial anxiety many younger Americans feel is not misplaced ...

MACON, Ga. — "No war, no ICE, no war... Show me what democracy looks like, this is what democracy looks like," were some of the chants heard in Downtown Macon on Saturday. Hundreds filled downtown, ...

When I mentioned to a young congressional staffer that the process for passing the Big Beautiful Bill would have been unthinkable in 2006, she looked genuinely confused. “This is how policy gets done, ...

Since 2020, I’ve kept a notecard fastened to my refrigerator with a magnet. The card has a quote from Roger Baldwin, a co-founder of the ACLU, and it reads, “So long as we have enough people in this ...

The following is an excerpt from “Healing Middle-Class Democracy: Respecting Each Other, Negotiating Honestly, and Cooperating Fairly,” released March 24, 2026, by RealClear Publishing. Excerpt from ...