Allen Guelzo is Director of the Politics and Statesmanship Initiative in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and Senior Research Scholar in the Council of Humanities, at Princeton University. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (2000), Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004), Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (2008), Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013), and Reconstruction: A Concise History (2018).
Democracy Rules (2021) is Jan-Werner Muller's attempt to explain populist authoritarianism, while at the same time setting out what he believes are the true pillars of liberal democracy. But he does so, understanding that democracy always operates under the handicap of uncertainty.
Date posted: 2022-02-16
War has the complexity of most of the human condition - so complex, indeed, that it often behaves like a force of nature, but with a human face. And that renders the question of determining the justice of a war a little like determining the justice of a tornado.
Date posted: 2019-11-28