Justice, or the call for it, defined much of our political landscape in 2020 as it also defines the early days of 2021. A violent permutation of that call resulted in a police station being burned down, billions of dollars in property damage across the country, and a mob storming the American Capitol with the […]
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Beyond the Electoral College: Toward Communitarian Democracy
Following the failed insurrection of January 6, 2021, the Electoral College’s sacred role in ensuring the legitimacy of our presidential elections was widely hailed. But that insurrection was occasioned by what had long been understood as a minor, ceremonial element of the College: the counting of ballots cast by electors and certified by state officials. […]
Open Democracy: Author Interview with Helene Landemore
A conversation with Helene Landemore about her new book, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2020). Hear more interviews from The Political Theory Review. Cover Photo by Jon Eric Marababol on Unsplash.
Reason and Character: Author Interview with Lorraine Pangle
A conversation with Lorraine Pangle about her new book, Reason and Character (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Hear more interviews from The Political Theory Review.
Constitutional Ruminations
The following essay is a response to pieces by Sanford Levinson, George Van Cleve, David Wilkins, and Citizen US as part of our Symposium on Constitutional Reform. When the political scientist John Roche described the founders of the 1780s as a “reform caucus” in action, he captured a truth that has proved elusive in […]
