Assessing Israel’s ‘Split’ Democracy Under Netanyahu

Israel exhibits several elements of a robust democracy: a solid electoral framework, a multiparty system, and freedom of the press. However, its standing as a legitimate democracy is threatened by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing policies, targeting of independent institutions, and military occupation of Palestinian territories. 

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Reimagining the Family: A Platonic Inquiry into Collective Liberation

Upon our first meeting, the members of this editorial team realized we would all follow the two first courses of the History of Western Political Thought sequence this year. We therefore decided to try and present an article re-actualizing a piece of historical political theory every publishing cycle. This week, we start with Plato’s seminal Republic. He probably would have disliked much of what Radical Feminism suggests. But he can’t argue anymore. So his immortal soul has to read this article and be indignant in Greek.

Sofia Vaillant Forlini, Editor, Political Theory Section

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