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 ...

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

On January 6 four years ago, angry supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol in an attempt to keep him in office, even though he had lost the 2020 election to Joe ...

We find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of truth. Trust in public institutions of knowledge (schools, legacy media, universities and experts) is at an all-time low, and blatant liars are drawing ...

Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

It’s a sign of our troubled times that when asked about the health of their democracies, millions of citizens curse politicians, complain about poor government performance, and express fears that ...

Public dissatisfaction with democracy continues to outweigh satisfaction across 12 high-income countries that Pew Research Center has surveyed consistently since 2017. Across that set of countries – ...

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