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Temptations of Tyranny
Rod Dreher’s conflicted support for President Trump illustrates a broader crisis among intellectual conservatives who fear the "soft totalitarianism" of liberal institutions yet embrace the hard authoritarianism of executive overreach. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s political thought, the essay contends that true freedom is preserved not through charismatic leaders but through the multiplication and decentralization of citizen power. Revitalizing democracy, it argues, requires stubborn, local acts of collective governance rather than the dangerous temptation to concentrate authority in a single figure.04-27-2025
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Happy Holidays! December 25th, 2016
Masha Gessen suggests that facts are not the field on which politics is played, and starting from them is a mistake:12-25-2016
December 11th, 2016
David Runciman asks the question: "Isn’t this how democracy ends?" But the answer he offers is not so simple.12-11-2016
December 4th, 2016
Ian Buruma looks at the special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. in the wake of Donald Trump's election and the Brexit vote. He argues that both votes are in important ways responding to a similar distaste for certain kinds of citizens.12-04-2016