“The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law” is the title of a 2025 book just published by Lord Jonathan Sumption, a rare eminence: An Oxford history academic and Barrister who went on to serve ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2025 issue of The Independent Review. Suri Ratnapala’s Philosophy, Law and Culture of Liberal Democracy and the Authoritarian Challenge revisits the ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

The first problem is conceptual and fatal: Representative democracy is simply not democratic. One person cannot perfectly represent another’s freedom, desires, needs, or individuality. Consider an ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

AFTER HOUSE SPEAKER Emerita Nancy Pelosi retires from Congress next year, she will move on to her next gig: teaching at her eponymous center at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley ...