John Keane

Many people today think of the 18th-century Enlightenment as an exciting season of reason... The interpretation is unfortunately ...

The Flemish historian and writer David Van Reybrouck has recently triggered a minor sensation in the Low Countries ...

Greeted by the fizz of fireworks, flags, honking horns, and a jubilant throng of tens of thousands of ...

I'm probably not the only person currently gripped by the feeling that democratic institutions, with a few exceptions, ...

“War in the heart of Paris” screams the headline of Le Figaro. Scenes of carnage, troops on the ...

Politics is a language game: in any given context, who gets what, when and how invariably depends on ...

With talk of democracy in crisis plentiful, especially in Europe, a smart assessment of how well democracies have ...