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Leading figures from politics, science, the arts and comedy will speak to ‘The Independent’ at annual cultural event

Josiah Ober joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives.

 BERKELEY — Allow me to offer high praise for The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, the new book by the independent scholar Brook Manville and Josiah Ober of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. While the entire book is well-written and insightful, its historical overview is a veritable treasure trove for anyone who wants to understand the events leading up to our

 BERKELEY — Allow me to offer high praise for The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, the new book by the independent scholar Brook Manville and Josiah Ober of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. While the entire book is well-written and insightful, its historical overview is a veritable treasure trove for anyone who wants to understand the events leading up to our

The former home secretary was granted a damehood earlier this year by ex-prime minister Boris Johnson in his resignation honours list.

Surveying everything from hunter gatherers to Elon Musk, the Cambridge politics professor debates whether our fate is sealed by the machines we’ve created

Darryl K. Brown’s profile on The Conversation

The country’s prospects of democracy and development “have been repeatedly thwarted by a predatory military and an indifferent international community.”

IT was a moment of pure bathos. Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelenskyy standing in the heart of war-torn Kyiv holding ceramic cockerels. It wasn’t…

America’s elites have developed a pathological hatred of democracy.