Telos 209 (Winter 2024): Democracy Today?

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In our previous issue, we focused on Carl Schmitt’s analysis of the crisis of liberal democracy in the Weimar Republic. As a follow-up, our current issue discusses the prospects for democracy today. Whether or not we consider the recent tumult within liberal democracies as a symptom of their instability or an indication of their vigor, it has become clear that history is not a one-way street in the direction of more and more democracy worldwide. With the United States retreating from the business of building democracies and with authoritarian governments trying to offer an alternative, it is worthwhile to consider the limitations of democracy in terms of both its current as well as long-term weaknesses and its degrees of suitability for different political situations. Stemming from a Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference in March 2024, the essays in our new issue offer a range of perspectives and prognoses on the state of democracy today.

Read David Pan’s introduction to Telos 209 in our blog.

Democracy Today?

Introduction
David Pan

Liberal Democracy between Biopolitical Homeostasis and Autoimmunity
Mark G. E. Kelly

Deweyan Democracy, Secular Religion, and Hegelian Selfhood
Tyler van Wulven

Public Justification in Flawed Democracies
Michael Buckley

Autonomy as Political Ideal of Liberalism
Javier Fuentes and Javier Castillo

Is Democracy Compatible with Christianity? Sergei Bulgakov on the Connection between Democracy and Atheism
Matthew J. Dal Santo

Tocqueville, Catholicism, and the Solution for Democratic Despotism
Juan C. Rivera Castro

The European Way(s) of Democracy: Chances and Challenges of Democratic Legitimacy in the European Construction
Lénárd Sándor

The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

Democracy in America 2024: Election Notes
Russell A. Berman

The 2024 Presidential Election: The Triumph of “the Wily” over “the Woke”
Timothy W. Luke

World Spirit in an Electric Vehicle: Elon Musk and the 2024 Presidential Election
Mark G. E. Kelly

The Return of Politics: Of Fire and Other Elements
Michael Marder

Changing the Channel and Pulling the Plug: Voting for Trump in 2024
Jay A. Gupta

Trump, Disruption, and the Bureaucracy
Greg Melleuish

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