The Perils of Universalism
The authoritarian offensive has primarily taken the form of attacks on racialized others. We must fight back accordingly.

The authoritarian offensive has primarily taken the form of attacks on racialized others. We must fight back accordingly.
In a moment when the left remains small and weak, ideological purity is almost certain to be self-defeating. We need every ally we can find.
Conspiracism has traveled from the margins to the mainstream, infusing public life and altering the bounds of what is acceptable in democratic politics.
Pundits fretting about a “tyranny of the majority” would do well to remember that democracy has always been a precondition of liberalism—not the other way around.
To effectively counter the threat of authoritarianism posed by today’s crisis of democracy, we need to understand the dynamics that produced it.
Introducing the special section of our Winter 2018 issue.