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Jul 22, 2021 · Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United...
Aug 24, 2021 · In this spirited polemic, Nichols argues the reverse: it is ordinary citizens who are failing the test of democracy. Populists fan the flames of fear and dissatisfaction, but it is the voters who put them in power.
Aug 23, 2021 · If you’re an American, you may be depressed, alarmed, or even outraged about the increasingly dire state of our democracy, but you shouldn’t be confused over who’s to blame for it. As Tom Nichols makes clear in Our Own Worst Enemy, we all are.
Oct 12, 2021 · Read this review of Tom Nichols' new book "Our Own Worst Enemy" - and why writer Oliver Traldi disagrees with Nichols' idea of democracy.
Kindle Hardcover Paperback Audiobook Audio CD. This book review is a web exclusive for the Fall 2022 issue of The Independent Review. There is a saying that goes something like this: When the people of a nation are starving, they have just one problem, but when the people of that nation become rich, they have a million problems. That is the ...
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy. Tom Nichols. Oxford Univ, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-751887-8. Nichols (The Death of Expertise), a professor of national...
Jun 27, 2021 · Hardcover $24.95 ( 272pp) 978-0-19-751887-8. Tom Nichols examines the current state and possible future of liberal democracy in Our Own Worst Enemy. In decades past, Nichols says, democratic nations had to protect themselves from external, physical threats.
