“Law should govern,” declared Aristotle, proclaiming a fundamental principle of democratic rule now under threat as illiberal leaders assail the independence of the courts. What is the response? What…
How have political cartoonists responded to what is happening in the world? A New York Times editorial cartoonist examines the state of democracy through his drawings.
Back in the 1970s, Milton Friedman wrote in The Times that “the business of business is business.” In a chaotic and hyperconnected world, does this still ring true? Where do profit and…
In countries around the world, voters have recently rallied around leaders who embrace an authoritarian, nationalistic and separatist worldview and curtail civil freedoms, independent institutions…
With the ideas, institutions and practice of liberal democracy - once a model for the world - coming under fierce attack from various directions, could ‘new’ insights for rebooting democracy be found…
