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Taming the Anthropocene: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Lars Deile on a New Era of Historical Understanding

In Conversation with Anna Wójcik: 2023 - The 8th Season of the Poland Rule of Law Telenovela

Illiberalism and Gender in Post-communist Europe

In Conversation with Bruce Robbins — Criticism and Politics

Building Enduring Democracies: Filip Milačić on the Effects of Nation and State Building on Democratic Consolidation

Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century

New Year Special

The Hungarian Government Became Hostage of Its Own Propaganda

The EU Prize for Literature — In Conversation with Anne Bergman-Tahon

Cannibal Capitalism: Nancy Fraser on How the Global Economic Order Consumes the Foundations of Our Democracy and Society

Informal Powers as a Barrier to EU Accession. Nino Tsereteli on Georgia's EU Candidacy

How the Necessary Cold War Ended – and Why an Unnecessary One Followed It: Archie Brown on the Political and the Personal in the Relationship Between the West and the Soviet Union/Russia

Emancipating Jews from Narratives of Victimhood and Redemption: Susan Neiman Discusses Germany’s Current Memory Culture

The Stories We Tell Ourselves — In Conversation with Peter Brooks

How 2000 people made an impact at a time when society was silent: András Bozóki on the rolling transition of Hungary

RevDem Debate | Rainbow Families in the EU: Obstacles to Full Equality

Liberalism Hasn’t Provided Adequate Answers to Today’s Major Crises: Luke Savage on Contemporary Liberalism and Its Democratic Socialist Critique

Why film matters: Oksana Sarkisova on the importance of documenting society

Why Do Autocracies Last? Lucan Way on the Longevity of Revolutionary Regimes

The Trouble with Fortune: Zsuzsanna Szelényi on Hungary’s Tainted Democracy

Why Waste Our Data in Online Malls? Ben Tarnoff on Democratizing the Internet

Democracy as a Way of Facing Obstacles: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz on Brazilian Authoritarianism and the Unfinished Project of Full Citizenship

Magic Mountain on Goodreads— On Experiencing Mann’s novel

Building Majorities is the Essence of Democracy: Timothy Shenk on His New Biography of American Democracy

Paolo Sandro: The (Re)making of Constitutional Democracy?

Till van Rahden on Conceptual History and Liberal Democracy

Gaia Vince: How to Best Manage the Unfolding Crisis of Everything

A Path to Democracy Without Destabilization: Joseph Wong Explains the Types of Development and the Patterns of Uneven Democratization in Modern Asia

The Way Europeans Stop Migration is Absolutely Horrific: A Conversation with Sally Hayden

Andreas Eckert: Down-to-Earth Machines of Exploitation. Colonialism, Slavery, and Current Debates

Ambiguous Tests of Loyalty: Franziska Exeler about the Second World War and its Long Shadow in Belarus

How Socialism Went Global – and Why It Withdrew. An Alternative Global History

Democracies Proved More Successful at Breaking Promises. Fritz Bartel on the End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

It is a mistake to see the Eastern vision as undemocratic — Peter Verovšek on European memory

Wiedemann: Repairing the Damage to Our Ethical Categories

In Conversation with John Shattuck: “Rights, if you can keep them”

Fabio Wolkenstein on the Dark Side of Christian Democratic History and Politics

Danica Fink-Hafner: Voters turn towards symbolic personalities when they are disappointed with political parties [Party Co-Op Series]

When Christian Democratic Youth Read Herbert Marcuse

Democracy Depends on Those who Are Harder to Fool: Daniel Treisman on the Changing Face of Dictatorship

A Global History of Hungary: In Conversation with Ferenc Laczó, Bálint Varga, and Dóra Vargha

Free Speech, Equality, and Tolerance Are Mutually Reinforcing: A Conversation with Jacob Mchangama

Ghostwriting the European Union — In Conversation with Tommaso Pavone

Davide Rodogno on the Troubled History of Western Humanitarianism

Wolfgang Merkel: How to Avoid Further Escalation? A Conversation on the Scholz Government and German Foreign Policy Today

Imperialism in Russian Literature - In a Conversation with Ewa Thompson

The State of the Rule of Law in the USA and the EU: In Conversation with Niels Kirst

The 'New Europe' Campaign: The Failure of Liberal Internationalism and the Resilience of Imperialism

In Conversation with Eva Fodor: How the Carefare Gender Regime Shapes Hungary

Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences: Ian Merkel on Writing Anti-Diffusionist Intellectual History

Re-establishing the Epistemological Foundations of EU Law: In Conversation with Renáta Uitz

The First Revolution Born in Oxford: Simon Kuper on the Tory Elite’s “Betrayal by Mistake”

Reflections of a European Man - In Conversation with Stefan Auer

Chamstwo — a Story of the Polish Serfdom

Boyd van Dijk on the Making of the Geneva Conventions: The Most Important Rules Ever Formulated for Armed Conflict

Laetitia Strauch-Bonart: Conservatism has little to do with populism

Helen Thompson: Local oil, global finance, and democracies without citizen-creditors

Digital Constitutionalism and Democratic Participation: In Conversation with Moritz Schramm

Realist Thought Between Empire-Building and Restraint: Matthew Specter on Why a Flawed Tradition Endures

Sarah Shortall on the Counter-politics of Theology

Gary Gerstle on the Neoliberal Political Order: An Elite Promise of a World of Freedom and Emancipation (Part II)

Norms & Narratives in the Constitution of the United Kingdom: In conversation with Nick Barber

From leisure time to oligarchs: A conversation with Iván Szelényi about his six decades of researching social inequality

Immediate EU membership for Ukraine? In conversation with Dimitry Kochenov

Gary Gerstle on the Neoliberal Political Order: An Elite Promise of a World of Freedom and Emancipation (Part I)

For a Democracy, It Is Vital to Be Able to Tell Facts Apart

Crisis as a trigger for new ways of thinking about politics

Mark R. Beissinger: Revolutions have succeeded more often in our time, but their consequences have become more ambiguous

Criminalizing backsliding judges? In Conversation with Armin von Bogdandy

Historians and Populism: Regional Perspectives and Entanglements

Peter Osnos: George Soros’ philanthropy is completely based on values

Does England Love Coalitions? Party Cooperation in the UK [Party Co-Op series]

In Conversation with Tarunabh Khaitan: Checking the Ascendant Executive in India

Latin America: When parties become cartels, people are going to rebel against them [Party Co-Op Series]

Prof. Robert Zaretsky: Irresistible Simon Weil

Mezger: Youth and the Politicization of Germanness in Interwar Yugoslavia

Signe Larsen: The Federal Telos of the European Union

Party Co-Op Podcast: Although the liberal democrats won, the word ‘liberal’ is still not popular in Czechia

Antonia Baraggia: Using Money to Protect the Rule of Law?

Maarten Prak: Modern democracy was a step back from the situation found in many medieval and early-modern towns

Dunstan: Black thinkers have contested the principles of democracy in ways that are central to the experience of these democracies

In Conversation with Ana Bobic: Disentangling Primacy and the Rule of Law Crisis

Molly Krasnodębska: A Stigma of a Latecomer

Marlene Laruelle: Russian society is very different from its regime

Martin Krygier: Three Ways Not to Think About the Rule of Law

Dimitar Bechev: The competitive element in competitive authoritarianism is still very pertinent

Kiran Klaus Patel: The European Union has unexpectedly become too important to ignore

Joelle Grogan: Two Years On – COVID-19 and the Rule of Law

Hungary two months before the elections – can the opposition win? Zsolt Enyedi in conversation with Daniel Rona

Suzanne Schneider: How the Apocalypticism of the Islamic State Reflects Global Transformations?

Michael Ignatieff: Liberalism has been weakened by its bloodless cosmopolitanism

Tom Theuns: An EU 2.0? Mass Withdrawal of Pro-Democratic Member States

Roosevelt Montas: Why liberal education is the bedrock of modern-day democracy

Dirk Moses: The Problems of Genocide [Part II]

2021's End of Year Special

Dirk Moses: The Problems of Genocide

Alberto Alemanno: It’s Not About Treaty Change, It’s About European Democracy

Turda: The idea of race across centuries and our current moment of reckoning

Richard Youngs on the resilience of democracy

Laszlo Bruszt: The Confederal Regime Weakens Vulnerable Member States