#439 — How to Lose a Democracy

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So um many people will be familiar with your your writing, but uh remind people uh of what you've been up to hello these many years as a writer and a political commentator and and where they can find your stuff currently? Well, I like it seems like everyone these days, I have a substack titled uh Notes from the Middle Ground. Uh, and then I also uh teach political science at the University of Pennsylvania as a a senior lecturer there. And I mainly teach courses in political theory and the political right.

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