Ended an evening run early because 99% humidity feels like 99, not 33. The sun hasn’t even been out today 🥵

Looking forward to Sam Moyn’s talk “Saving Liberalism from Crisis” tomorrow night at Yale-NUS College. Details and how to register to attend (in person or by zoom) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/yale-nus-l...

Some recent thought-provoking work on militant democracy in the United States, related to section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

For those susceptible to scotus’ gaslighting about how agencies are antidemocratic tyrants, I submit to you the following forthcoming shortly in Legal Theory

Quinta Jurecic on how Article 14.3 represents an early form of militant democracy. And how democracy needs mechanisms to restrict the rights of popular antidemocrats, unless we think democracy is just mob rule essentially.

There is a precedent for Kevin McCarthy’s ouster in Weimar Germany. In my new book ‘Democracy despite Itself’, forthcoming with OUP, I explore the implications of that precedent and how to defend democracy against internal enemies

Looking forward to being a part of THE German Studies Association’s 2023 Conference. I’ll be a part of the workshop on ‘Militant Democracy: Then and Now’. I’ll present a paper on Otto Kirchheimer and Militant Democracy

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