Race may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions
of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new …

The world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The exceptional is becoming normal. The
last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression …

The widespread conviction that we are living in a post-truth era rests on two claims: that a
large number of people believe things that are clearly false, and that their believing these …

Abstract Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance
deliberative interactions that generate and justify reasonable public policies. Adopting an …

Transparency is a communicative process whose aim is to provide citizens with information
that will promote their participation in public affairs. However, its application is often reduced …

Starting from the debate on democratic decline, this article introduces the concept of
'mainstreaming authoritarianism'in a bid to turn attention to the role and agency of traditional …

" Why do politicians engage in nasty politics against domestic political opponents? Why do
they insult them, accuse them of crimes and conspiracies, attempt to intimidate them …

We contend that the Trump administration mainstreamed far-right politics through its foreign
policy on China, the World Health Organization and its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic …

Drawing on the contributions of psychoanalysts influenced by Bion as well as on
sociopolitical historians, the author examines Trumpism and its destructive leadership …

In the face of post-normal problems, uncertainties must become central to developing
legitimate quality control in engaging social actors through the extended peer communities …