The Game Theory of Democracy. Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States.

Elon Musk has amplified a theory that only "alpha males" can be trusted to make good decisions, and should therefore be the ones to participate in democracy.. On Monday the billionaire ...

Caleb Muftwang, governor of Plateau state, has blamed the persistent security challenges in Nigeria on the elites.

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...

Thanks to Trump, the Republicans became a party of primary voters, while the Democrats remained under elite control. The results are now in, and they can be seen in both Biden’s sad job ...

MacIntyre provides a dispassionate dissection of how, without any cabal or specific conspiracy, an elite class captured our major public and private institutions, hollowed them out, set them marching ...

Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each were politicized and degraded ...

In theory, everyone has an equal shot at getting into an elite university by acing the gaokao. In practice, children from wealthy families, who often go to the best high schools and receive ...