In his recent speech at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney drew on Havel’s book challenging compliance in an age of untruthfulness. What does it say?
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The hip-hop group is directing the world’s attention to Gaza. But it’s not the first Irish republican group to protest the oppression of another colonised peoples.
For the classical Greeks, citizenship was a binding relationship of reciprocal duties and obligations owed to all other citizens. The law, they believed, was king.
The president has followed in the footsteps of Louis XIV of France and the czars of Russia, who operated national theaters as extensions of monarchical power.
Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.
Medieval Europeans thought about politics in terms of leadership and often criticized rulers for ‘tyranny’ − both in government and in the church.
Donald Trump faces ‘double the trouble’ as Georgia charges were added to federal charges brought over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. And that’s thanks to federalism.
Whichever way the ongoing armed conflict ends, the loser will be Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi.
For our societies to survive, we must take action to figure out the psychology behind an attraction to tyrants — or we will be led in the future by fear-mongering, war-mongering tyrannical liars.
A scholar of social participation finds shared themes across protests in many states, not all of which fit common popular or media narratives about the events.
From the earliest days of democracy, thinkers have warned that letting the people rule could work out badly.
It was 100 years ago this month that Benito Mussolini created the fascist party in Italy. Today, his life offers cautionary lessons for contemporary politics.
Amid the rising forces of populism and nationalism, it’s easy to fear a new age of tyranny. But history proves tyrants are often no match against democracy and its defenders.
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