Steven Simon on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East including Iran and the Wars in Iraq
The Iraqis suffered so heavily and not just because of the 2003 war. The first war in 1991 inflicted terrible damage on Iraq and then the next 10 years of sanctions immiserated the populace and inflic...
11 Apr 202343min
Larry Bartels Says Democracy Erodes from the Top
Democracy is a much more complicated thing than we often give it credit for and certainly speaking dichotomously about democracy being in crisis or not is an oversimplification. Larry Bartels Become ...
4 Apr 202352min
Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda
One of the things that we see happening online is sort of a democratization of propaganda. Samuel Woolley Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is avail...
28 Mar 202342min
Josh Chin on China's Surveillance State
It's hard to believe what was happening in Xinjiang and most Chinese people didn't believe, but now they do. A lot of them do. Josh Chin Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Parad...
21 Mar 202340min
Staffan Lindberg with a Report on Democracy in the World
Democracy dies with the lies. Even that simplest form of democracy, which is that we vote on a politician or we don't and we vote on another politician depends on the truth. Because if you can lie abo...
14 Mar 202342min
Srdja Popovic on Dilemma Actions
It is one Putin when you see him on a calendar. It's yet another Putin when he needs to arrest a snowman. Srdja Popovic Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transc...
7 Mar 202351min
Wendy Hunter on Lula, Bolsonaro, January 8th and Democracy in Brazil
I do want to underscore this should not be read as a victory of the left. It's a victory of Lula and a narrow victory. And it's Lula the person. It's not so much Lula from the PT as the party that won...
28 Feb 202345min
Jennifer Piscopo on the Constitutional Chaos in Chile
I think voters right now, remember the circus of the convention over the substance of what it did. I think there is a bit of an amnesia over the mandate for change that existed in 2019 and 2020 that t...
21 Feb 202353min
