What comes next
The path to American authoritarianism
Many years ago I read Steven Levitsky’s and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die. If you’ve heard me speak in person, chances are you’ve heard me reference this book. Drawing on the last century of world history, the authors present a clear breakdown of how “democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the sl…

