But the fate of Pakistan which had chosen to tread such a path is there for all to see.Which is that modern democracy and religious orthodoxy do not and cannot stick together.

It would take a near-political miracle for that to happen. But illiberal democracy — Poland demonstrated this during the legislative elections in October 2023 — can be defeated. And give way ...

Democracy is easy to understand. The Declaration of Independence spells out the basic principles. Let’s restate them in modern terms. This is a strong statement about one’s standing in a ...

His new book is "Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every ... The once-powerful United States of America is in a free fall not seen in modern history, and there is absolutely no reason to ...

University students occupied this symbolically important site in the spring of 1989. Their calls for freedoms divided the ...

The Congress on Tuesday paid rich tributes to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary and said ...

R. Bruce Anderson writes that a large proportion of European nations came to democratic “norms” while he was alive. What are we teaching them?

The Congress party commemorated the death anniversary of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The tributes from ...

Ryan D. Enos is a professor of Government. Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a professor of Government. Democracy is in greater peril today than at ...

it was not conformism to Western modernity but rather judging their own tradition by the normativity of the Quran. Iqbal was a democrat in impulse and thought; he attacked Western democracy for ...

Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate explores the highly-charged political music of Cornelius Cardew.