By DAVID FARIS Originally published in Informed Comment on 09/08/2020 Reprinted with permission of the author, and of the publisher, Juan Cole (Special to Informed Comment) – In 2016, thanks largely to the antiquated, nonsensical design of its creaky electoral system, the U.S. presidency was awarded to a candidate who lost the election…
Here’s a fascinating twelve minutes of a longer interview with historian Mike Duncan, “an American political history podcaster and author. Duncan grew up in Washington state and now lives with his wife and children in France, where he is researching and writing a book. A self-described ‘complete history geek’ grew from an interest in ancient civilizations as…
The idea that our American democracy is at a dangerous fork in the road is not new, but no one is more keenly aware of the dangers we confront than Yale Professor of History Timothy Snyder, author most recently of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” See a brief summary of his…