Essays
American Democracy in Peril
Is the United States an Illiberal Democracy?
“Protect our democracy” has been the clarion call for those opposed to another Trump presidency and a warning for those…
Read Full Article...When Voting is a Crime
Federal law mandates that when a voter is turned away because her name cannot be found on the voter rolls,…
Read Full Article...Can the Constitution and Democracy Survive the Roberts Court?
The United States Constitution is and has been the cornerstone of American democracy. For more than a century, Americans have…
Read Full Article...Democracy in America Now
If democracy is government “of the people, by the people, for the people,” then there exists, to this day, a…
Read Full Article...Trumpism against Democracy
Project 2025: Trumpism and the New Conservatism
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes hard-right policies aligned closely with former President Trump’s “America First” agenda and is designed…
Read Full Article...Triumph of the Vanguard
Not often is an author forced to reevaluate the conclusions of his own book days after its final submission, yet…
Read Full Article...My Trump
I grew up in New Jersey and working in NYC, then I move to NY-Long Island with my wife to…
Read Full Article...The Apotheosis of Donald Trump
It might seem curious that Trump spent a valuable Sunday of campaign time before the election at a rally the…
Read Full Article...Global Democracy in Decline
The Urgency of Now: Was Democracy Really Useful in the Caribbean?
This article is not the first that has used urgency as the basis of its importance. Like every time before,…
Read Full Article...The War for Jewish Supremacy
In the past year, I’ve been trying to decipher what happened to most Israeli Jews. What clouded their minds and…
Read Full Article...Philosophical Interventions
Kant in the 21st Century: On Work, Precarity, and Citizenship in the A.I. Era
We are living in a time of upheaval, as A.I. – and other overlapping crises – are rapidly changing how…
Review Essays
The Monsters are Here
Works Discussed: Richard Seymour, Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization Siddhartha Deb, Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and…
The Future of Judaism in America: On Joshua Leifer’s Tablets Shattered
The war between Israel and Hamas, Hezbollah, the expansion of hostilities into Lebanon and the missile assault on Israel by…
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