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Jeffrey C. Isaac
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Jeffrey C. Isaac

James H. Rudy Professor
Indiana University

EssaysFeatureLiberal Democracy in Question

John Kelly Is a Present Danger to the Republic

With all due respect

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Jeffrey C. Isaac October 20, 2017
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Why I Welcome John McCain’s “Liberty Medal” Speech

McCain on the 'meaning of American politics'

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Jeffrey C. Isaac October 17, 2017
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Taking Political Differences Seriously

Why I Did Not Protest John Yoo at the APSA Meetings

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Jeffrey C. Isaac September 20, 2017
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Charlottesville and Trump

David Duke Explains Neo-Nazi Violence to You

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Jeffrey C. Isaac August 12, 2017
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Trump, Nukes, and Democracy at its Limit

The whole world is watching

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Jeffrey C. Isaac August 9, 2017
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Trump, Tweets, and the Dictatorial Mind

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Jeffrey C. Isaac July 29, 2017
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Is There Illiberal Democracy?

A Problem with no Semantic Solution

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Jeffrey C. Isaac July 12, 2017
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FeatureLiberal Democracy in Question

Trump is an Authoritarian

In his actions and his words -- and words are actions

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Jeffrey C. Isaac May 3, 2017
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Hungarian Higher Education Under Attack

The Fate of CEU is the Fate of Freedom

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Jeffrey C. Isaac April 3, 2017
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“Focus on the Issues, Not on Trump?” NOT!

How the Trump Administration is waging war against the Media

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Jeffrey C. Isaac February 25, 2017
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Contributions

  • Two Hearty Cheers for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (2018)
  • It's Happening Here and Now (2018)
  • Bucharest Reflections on Political Corruption (2018)
  • Thinking Politically in the Age of Trump (2018)
  • Memory, Forgetting, and the Bluest Kind of Blue (2018)
  • Prague in Spring (2018)
  • Why There Can Be No Democratic Left Without an Energetic Left (2018)
  • Democracy Now (2018)
  • Primary Contests (2018)
  • Consonance, Dissonance, Harmony (2018)
  • Between Past and Future (2018)
  • Damascus Blues (2018)
  • Alabama on My Mind (2018)
  • Damon Linker is Wrong About Liberals (2018)
  • Backlash Blues (2018)
  • Ladies Swing the Band (2018)
  • Stormy Weather (2018)
  • Two Idiocies and a Maybe (2018)
  • The Fables of Our Faubus (2018)
  • Strange Fruit (2018)
  • Brown and Blue (2018)
  • Moanin' (2018)
  • The Sidewinder (2018)
  • Blue Monday: Monday Morning Blues (2018)
  • How Democracies Die and How They Live (2018)
  • Why Liz Watson’s Progressive Endorsements Matter (2018)
  • Why Is Trump’s Authoritarianism So Hard for Some to Recognize? (2018)
  • Against Jason Brennan’s Book (2017)
  • Neither Normalization Nor Alarmism (2017)
  • Why Trump’s Words Were Offensive (2017)
  • John Kelly Is a Present Danger to the Republic (2017)
  • Why I Welcome John McCain’s “Liberty Medal” Speech (2017)
  • Taking Political Differences Seriously (2017)
  • Charlottesville and Trump (2017)
  • Trump, Nukes, and Democracy at its Limit (2017)
  • Trump, Tweets, and the Dictatorial Mind (2017)
  • Is There Illiberal Democracy? (2017)
  • Trump is an Authoritarian (2017)
  • Hungarian Higher Education Under Attack (2017)
  • “Focus on the Issues, Not on Trump?” NOT! (2017)
  • Trump and his Recent Denunciation of Anti-semitism (2017)
  • The Politics of Disclosure (2017)
  • A Citizen's Appeal to Barack Obama (2017)
  • A "No!" to Gorsuch is a "Yes!" to Democracy (2017)
  • Thoughts on Putin and Trump (2017)
  • Obama's Speech was Powerful and Flawed (2017)
  • Is There a Crisis of Democracy? (2016)
  • Family and Friends (2016)
  • U.S. Political Scientists: Teach About Dissent and Civil Resistance (2016)
  • Why Did Trump Win? (2016)

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