Podcast Episode · Past Present Future · October 4 · 54m

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to Ithaca students about tuition hikes, sexual violence, free speech, and university governance.

Over the course of his life Jürgen Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.

Podcast Episode · Past Present Future · September 30 · 59m

Dealmaking under duress is always undemocratic.

Humankind cannot bear very much uncertainty; to our dying day, we are all afraid of the dark. And so we perceive the world selectively, exaggerating the

There are always elites. The people get to decide which ones rule.

Vi lever allt längre – och de äldre har aldrig haft större makt än nu över politik, pengar och arbetsliv. Historikern Samuel Moyn ser en gerontokrati där de unga får vänta på både inflytande och resur...

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In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

We should not give in to gloom.

He appears on the world stage as a whistleblower, an informer, divulging to ruling authorities the deep, dark political machinations and unsavory behaviors of the Jews. The Jews, he charges, are a peo...

Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?

Did the War on Terror put our democracy at risk—or reveal its flaws?

Die mächtigste Nation war mal das Land der Jugend. Heute wird sie geführt von einem starrsinnigen 80-Jährigen, dementen Senatoren und Parteien, die mehrheitlich von Alten gewählt werden. Ein Jurist st...

The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.

How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future

Experts say that childhood is suffering. They just can’t agree on the cause.

The Left’s Permanent Derangement

In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.

The task now is to stop mourning the old order and build the foundations of the new multipolar world

A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and Preside...

We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.

Francis Fukuyama’s premature triumphalism rendered him more meme than man – while leaving the man radically ill-equipped to understand either the miseries of our present or how they might be overcome

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

The country’s longest war came to an end exactly five years ago. Today it offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran.

By Samuel Moyn

The mail-in voting fiasco is the latest proof that we have another reconstruction ahead of us.

By Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn talks about his new book, "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It."

Podcast Episode · Princeton UP Ideas Podcast · August 28 · 55m

A new book about higher ed’s critics fails to ask the hard questions.

Life expectancy has increased in the U.S., rising a decade since 1950 and three decades since 1900. Good thing, right? Not altogether, argues Samuel Moyn in his recent Gerontocracy...

Yale Professor Samuel Moyn argues that the old in the United States have hoarded wealth and power, and that something needs to give. Plus, Australian historian Tom Griffiths corroborates the extraordi...

The Trump impeachment figure lost in a stunning primary upset in Florida — a capstone to the Russia-gate era as Democratic politics take a new turn