Democracy - Rationale Magazine

21 Jul

Democracy and the legitimacy of political power

22/07/2025
By John Wright
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Imagine that one day your neighbour knocks on your door and proceeds to tell you what to do. They might tell you how you can, or cannot...

08 Jul

Law & Politics

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

08/07/2025
By Jack Dikian
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Long before Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties between 2010 and 2018, before the United Kingdom sa...

24 Mar

Law & Politics

Behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags

24/03/2025
By Ralph Hertwig
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of many eastern European countries and triumphantly ushered i...

19 Feb

Law & Politics

Defending fragile democracies against the march of authoritarianism

Democracy is difficult. Democracy is fragile. Democracy, in its most inclusive modus operandi, pushes the boundaries too far for many p...

23 Nov

History

Athens: A blueprint for 21st century democracy? (Part 2)

23/11/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is the second part in a two-part series. Read the first part here. Athenian democracy was well short of an idea...

20 Nov

History

Athens: A blueprint for 21st century democracy? (Part 1)

20/11/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is the first in a two-part series. That the liberal democracies are floundering has been widely observed. That’s not to...

17 Jul

Law & Politics

Thomas Matthew Crooks was wrong to pull the trigger, but right to be afraid of Trump

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

09 Mar

Feature series, Law & Politics

Think again about America’s decline and the emerging new order

10/03/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is part of our 'Mulling over America' feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

29 May

Law & Politics

How democracies survive

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government — except for every other one we’ve tried. While democracy is...

24 Apr

Law & Politics

Our duty to laugh in the face of tyrants

24/04/2023
By Tama Matheson
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Autocracies are very serious places. They have to be. Their power is founded on an absurdity – the assertion that one person or ideolog...

20 Jan

Law & Politics

The finest kind of democratic leader

07/02/2023
By Paul Monk
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Word has spread. After five and a half years as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is stepping down by 7 February. She ha...

05 Oct

Philosophy & Psychology

Democracy and inequality of epistemic power

05/10/2022
By John Wright
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Many hold that growing inequality is one of the most serious problems we face. But there are others who hold that it does not...

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