The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American Revolution, no one was more responsible for setting capitalism’s ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Almost all the rulers who have tried to destroy freedom have at first attempted to preserve its forms. This has ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

Charles Barnes marches through downtown St. Louis carrying an American flag during the 'No Kings' protest on Saturday, June 15, 2025. Demonstrators made their way through downtown demanding the ...

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat, wrote as a friend of democracy in America, albeit one with misgivings for its future. His insights on the nascent democratic society he visited in the ...

We are living in an authoritarian state. It didn’t feel that way this morning, when I took my dog for his usual walk in the park and dew from the grass glittered on my boots in the rising sunlight. It ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Democracy is at once everywhere and nowhere—on the lips of the masses calling for ...

Mr. Levitsky and Mr. Ziblatt are professors of government at Harvard and the authors of “Tyranny of the Minority.” Democratic self-rule contains a paradox. It is a system premised on openness and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Voices and Votes: Democracy in America exhibit from the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) will be making its next stop on Staten Island and will be on view at ...

Editor’s Note: Part of Civitas Outlook’s “Texas and the Future of Legal Education” Symposium. The Texas Supreme Court has taken the first necessary step in reforming legal education and restoring ...