Tag: dictatorship

The Stage Is Set

Envisioning a prosperous and progressive future for Latin America.

Russia’s Tomorrow, Today

As the space for debate in Moscow shrinks, the options for the country’s future look ever narrower. By Sam Greene

Books As “Revolutionist” Incubators

On Jack London, banned books, and political agitation. Jack London in 1903, public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. During his short career, Jack London achieved larger-than-life stature in American literature, and in the course of that short career he, like so many other writers of 

A Usable Past

How regimes shore up power through national narratives. Of all the factors that have been considered and evaluated as primers for the pervasive nature of authoritarianism in the Middle East, perhaps none are quite so crucial, nor quite so overlooked, as that of the national