Democracy Today?
What is the situation of democracy today? Are the present problems simply growing pains in the inevitable march of history, or are there fundamental limitations of this political form? Is democracy a stable form of government or a delicate balancing act that will always be at risk of deteriorating and being replaced by some form of authoritarianism? In this issue of Telos, we consider the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the possibilities and limitations, of democracy today.
Introduction
David Pan
Liberal Democracy between Biopolitical Homeostasis and Autoimmunity
Mark G. E. Kelly
Deweyan Democracy, Secular Religion, and Hegelian Selfhood
Tyler van Wulven
Public Justification in Flawed Democracies
Michael Buckley
Autonomy as Political Ideal of Liberalism
Javier Fuentes and Javier Castillo
Is Democracy Compatible with Christianity? Sergei Bulgakov on the Connection between Democracy and Atheism
Matthew J. Dal Santo
Tocqueville, Catholicism, and the Solution for Democratic Despotism
Juan C. Rivera Castro
The European Way(s) of Democracy: Chances and Challenges of Democratic Legitimacy in the European Construction
Lénárd Sándor
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Democracy in America 2024: Election Notes
Russell A. Berman
The 2024 Presidential Election: The Triumph of “the Wily” over “the Woke”
Timothy W. Luke
World Spirit in an Electric Vehicle: Elon Musk and the 2024 Presidential Election
Mark G. E. Kelly
The Return of Politics: Of Fire and Other Elements
Michael Marder
Changing the Channel and Pulling the Plug: Voting for Trump in 2024
Jay A. Gupta
Trump, Disruption, and the Bureaucracy
Greg Melleuish
