1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1743+ words) Catherine Rowett, British academic and former Member of the European Parliament, argues democracy survives on lies. Drawing parallels between Plato's Republic, where a noble lie binds society together, Rowett traces this same fiction through modern democratic myths: equal votes and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (534+ words) By David J. Butler Every political system operates according to its own sense of time. American democracy was built to move deliberately. Modern technology expects it to move instantly. That tension may be one of the defining political challenges of our…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (172+ words) Britain offers another example. Brexit demonstrated that a referendum could bypass much of the traditional party-mediated political process and produce a political shock that Parliament struggled to manage. Hungary illustrates a more direct form of democratic erosion. Viktor Orbán and…...