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Is a tempting alternative to western democracy gaining currency in the developing world? So I wondered when I read the warning in yesterda...

The power of elites is like entropy.  A robust society can keep inherited or socially acquired privilege in check for a season or six, but e...

Let's say that you were a supporter of Barack Obama in 2008, now disillusioned. You credit the main thrust of the liberal brief against...

This cry of anguish and warning in the FT by Aatish Taseer, son of the recently assassinated governor of Punjab in Pakistan, is infused wit...

I've often pushed back against those who mock Francis Fukuyama for having suggested, in the wake of the destruction of the Berlin Wall,...

At her 77th birthday dinner last night, my mother asked me if I still believe the dictum that's always been on my profile to the right o...

Should democratically elected leaders be tried for war crimes if there's reasonable cause to believe they may have committed them? Mic...

Katrin Bennhold reports in the International Herald Tribune  (as noted today by Thomas Friedman): And as developing countries everywhere ...

A few weeks ago, social scientists Michael J. Lamia and James Raymond Vreeland published the results of an exhaustive statistical study of...

A remarkable Times article today documenting improvement in race relations in the U.S. since Obama's election also bears witness to t...

The Times today , noting the congruity of realist outlook between Obama and Robert Gates, credits Gates with bringing Obama "to earth...

The New York Times editorial board is shocked, shocked that some Obama supporters say they would sit out the general if Hillary is the nomi...

In his "Think Again" blog, Stanley Fish relayed some of his responses to 10 questions posed by a BBC interviewer for a series ti...