Government Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/government/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Government Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/government/ 32 32 “We Don’t Want the Program”: Jill Lepore on How Tech Can’t Fix Democracy https://www.publicbooks.org/we-dont-want-the-program-jill-lepore-on-how-tech-cant-fix-democracy/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:00:08 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39475 “Start-ups: they need philosophers, political theorists, historians, poets. Critics.”[none-for-homepage]

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]]> Public Thinker: Thomas Frank on How Populism Can Save America https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-thomas-frank-on-how-populism-can-save-america/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39248 “A relentless assault on received orthodoxies has the effect of making you unpopular with the people for whom those received orthodoxies are orthodox.”[none-for-homepage]

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]]> More (Public) Money in Elections! https://www.publicbooks.org/more-public-money-in-elections/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:00:03 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39098 The money given by big donors distorts the British political system. How should the voices of ordinary citizens be heard?

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]]> Public Thinker: Astra Taylor on Democracy’s Long Crisis https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-astra-taylor-on-democracys-long-crisis/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:00:11 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36519 “If we want democratic scrutiny, the demos must first have power.”

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]]> Democracy’s Long Game: An Interview with Paul Starr https://www.publicbooks.org/democracys-long-game-an-interview-with-paul-starr/ Thu, 14 May 2020 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36041 “You have to think … about how you’re going to make the changes stick.”

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]]> Let Us Now Praise Corporate “Persons” https://www.publicbooks.org/let-us-now-praise-corporate-persons/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=33434 When presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a heckler that “corporations are people, my friend” during a 2011 campaign appearance at the Iowa State ...

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]]> Public Thinker: Kevin Kruse on Why Recent History Is Still History https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-kevin-kruse-on-why-recent-history-is-still-history/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:00:08 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=31858 “Historian. Author/editor of White Flight; The New Suburban History; Spaces of ...

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]]> The Bingewatch: We’re All Fired https://www.publicbooks.org/the-bingewatch-were-all-fired/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:01:01 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=9562 Liberal grief in the wake of Trump’s election has occasioned binges galore: binge-drinking, binge-eating, binge-weed-smoking, and not least ...

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]]> The High Power of the Lower Courts https://www.publicbooks.org/high-power-lower-courts/ Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:02:12 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=9437 In 2010 the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its legions of gun-rights supporters were on the verge of a constitutional revolution. ...

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]]> Cuba’s Next Chapter https://www.publicbooks.org/cubas-next-chapter/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/cubas-next-chapter/ In April 2016, Cuba’s Communist Party (PCC) convened its Seventh Party Congress. Sprinkled throughout the published proceedings were a few attempts at levity by the otherwise laconic Raúl Castro. One joke went as follows: when US politicians critize Cuba for having a single-party system, Raúl responds, “Yes, just like you.” The gullible Americans correct him, […]

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