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Marc F. Plattner is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, and co-chair of the research council of the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies. He is the author of Democracy Without Borders?: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy (2007) and the coeditor of numerous books on democracy.

November 4, 2019|Aaron Rhodes, Declaration of Independence, MIke Pompeo, The Debasement of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Righting Our Understanding of Human Rights: A Tough Job

by Marc F. Plattner|8 Comments

Aaron Rhodes is right about the need to rethink human rights, but his book shows that the intellectual and political obstacles to doing so are enormous.

May 13, 2019|Fareed Zakaria, Liberal Democracy, Viktor Orban

Orbán’s Misapprehension of Liberalism

by Marc F. Plattner|4 Comments

Viktor Orban, Prime Minster of Hungary (alamy.com)

The Hungarian prime minister tries to identify liberal democracy with U.S.-style progressivism, to the detriment of all of the world's democracies.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

The Gift of the Magi

We shouldn’t scorn the Magi’s complex, tenuous work of the mind. These are the saints of intellect.
by Joseph Bottum
A Christmas Card Scene Encompassing the World

Pieter Bruegel’s "Hunters in the Snow" is one of the masterpieces of western art.
by John O. McGinnis
Please, Wish Me a “Merry Christmas”

Offer greetings from your faith because a salutary pluralism of genuine difference will reinforce them all.
by Greg Weiner
Persecution, True and False

If “persecution” of Christians can be used with any kind of sincerity in our context, it is the feeling of general impotency which comes from decadence.
by Luma Simms
John McClane: America’s Christmas Warrior

Die Hard is our Christmastime Western, edifying children and adults alike about the need for the manly virtues.
by Titus Techera

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