Jeffrey C. Isaac is the James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, where he has taught for the past 36 years. In 2017, he received the American Political Science Association’s Frank Goodnow Award for public service for his long tenure as editor in chief of Perspectives on Politics: A Political Science Public Sphere. He has published five books, edited or co-edited two anthologies, and published over 100 articles and essays. His political writing often appears at Common Dreams and on his personal blog, Democracy in Dark Times.
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Articles
Disturbers of the Peace
Jeffrey C. Isaac sees modern American parallels in Benjamin Nathan's book about Soviet dissidents.
When “Postliberalism” Means Reaction: On Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change”
Jeffrey C. Isaac reviews Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future”
Is Hungary’s Present the United States’ Future?: On Zsuzsanna Szelényi’s “Tainted Democracy”
Jeffrey C. Isaac reviews Zsuzsanna Szelényi’s “Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary.”
How the New Deal Is Very Present — and Very Far Away
A history of the New Deal throws uncomfortable light on modern dilemmas.
Millennial Socialism and Its Limits
A primer of world socialism skims some of the most important parts.
Does Liberalism Still Have a Future?
Jeffrey C. Isaac on Mark Lilla, Edward Luce, and where American liberalism goes from here.
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