Why Democratic Legitimacy Needs Procedural Humility

Toward a conception of legitimacy that acknowledges contingency, power asymmetries, and the fallibility of political knowledge.

Field Log: Democratic Experiments Worth Watching

From citizens' juries to participatory budgeting, these experiments reveal how democratic innovation navigates realism's constraints.

Epistemic Democracy After the Expertise Backlash

Recent work on epistemic democracy has to grapple with polarization, misinformation, and the legitimacy crisis surrounding expertise. Here are the questions that keep resurfacing in my reading notes.

What Political Realists Get Right (and Miss)

Realists insist that politics starts from conflict, power, and history. How far can we take that insight without surrendering the critical edge of political philosophy?