Heather Cox Richardson on History, Conservatism, and the Awakening of American Democracy
It would be a lovely thing if before I die, I get to see a younger generation reclaim democracy and rebuild it in a new, more expansive way. Heather Cox Richardson Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon M...
26 Sep 20231h 1min
Daniel Ziblatt on American Democracy, the Republican Party, and the Tyranny of the Minority
I think one of the greatest barriers to reform is thinking that reform is impossible. Daniel Ziblatt Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcrip...
19 Sep 202346min
Is Reunification Still Possible? Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo on Korea
North Korea is stable up until the day it's not... The day that it collapses, there'll be a lot of people out there who will say this was inevitable. Victor Cha Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make...
12 Sep 202354min
Deng Xiaoping is Not Who You Think He is. Joseph Torigian on Leadership Transitions in China and the Soviet Unio
People still think of Chinese history as this two-line struggle because that's the story the Chinese tell. But everything from Mao Zedong's relationship to Liu Shaoqi to anything that happened during ...
5 Sep 202346min
Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East
Great developments by nature are not linear. Things just don't always continue as they have been. That's why this idea that the Arab Spring came, it went, it happened, it didn't work, therefore the Mi...
29 Aug 202351min
Is India Still a Democracy? Rahul Verma Emphatically Says Yes
India should be understood as a test case of democracy outside the Western world. Rahul Verma Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is av...
22 Aug 202339min
Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution
It would be a miracle if the original understanding of the Constitution just landed time and time again with the views in 2023 of the right-wing of the Republican Party. That would be too amazing a co...
15 Aug 202349min
Marc Plattner Has Quite a Bit to Say About Democracy
I think we have a more complex notion of what democracy is. - Marc Plattner Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.d...
8 Aug 202342min
