Blaming Trump’s rise on partisan gridlock masks just how ruthlessly the GOP set the stage for his demagoguery.
Books
‘Never Trump’ Conservatives Won’t Save Us
They dislike Trump because of who he is, not what he has done.
Classless
A libertarian economist calls for ending public education as we know it. It’s a radical proposal—and deeply wrong.
Trump Meets Political Science
The profession confronts a grim question: Are we witnessing the end of the world’s oldest democracy?
More Heart Than Science
Industrialized health care has suppressed the human interaction that forms the ineffable “art” of medicine—while failing to achieve true efficiency.
The Tragedy of Thailand
How a model of democratization became patient zero for the global rise of authoritarianism.
How Southern Plutocrats Betrayed America
The slaveholding oligarchy was defeated in the Civil War. But concentrations of wealth and power continue to threaten our democracy.
Liberal Democracy Is Not the Problem
With authoritarianism on the rise at home and abroad, now is no time to give up on the American experiment.
The Fallacy of the Free Market
Democrats’ vision that our broken economy simply needs to correct for market failures has its limits.
Dear Democrats, Don’t Despair
Even in the age of Donald Trump, at least in some ways, things have never been better.
