Democratic Resilience
The Schumpeterian Shadow
The history of political science in the 20th and 21st centuries can be read as a slow retreat from the Athenian ideal of the zoon politikon—the political animal deeply embedded in the civic life of the polis—toward a model of the citizen as a peripheral spectator. This is a fundamental challenge of our time: that […]
The Temporal Crisis of the Democratic Organism
The resilience of the American democratic experiment is currently tested not merely by the visible fractures of partisan polarization or the gridlock of institutional sclerosis, but by a more insidious force: the systemic compression of time and the aggressive commodification of human attention.
Deep Learning and Democracy
Consider the practice of packing every curriculum and every course full to the brim with content every academic term. Research in higher education suggests that there is a conflict between content coverage (the efficiency model) and deep learning (the effectiveness model). Efficiency and effectiveness are not mutually exclusive. Both are essential components to a robust […]