This year, the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy has chosen Envisioning Democratic Futures as our annual theme. In Fall 2024, we were pleased to invite scholars from a variety of disciplines to share their ideas about challenges to–opportunities for–the future of democracy. For example, on November 7, the Clough Center held a special event (What Comes Next? Assessing a Year of Elections) to consider the results of the U.S. elections.
Our focus on elections will continue this semester. Over the coming months, the Clough Center will hold a series of conversations about recent elections around the world. For our first conversation, on January 21, 2025, Professor Art Goldhammer (Harvard University) will lead our discussion of France. Dr. Goldhammer is a writer, translator, and long-time observer of French politics, on which he writes regularly for such publications as The New Republic, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New York Times, and the Guardian. He is the author of a novel, Shooting War, and is working on another about physicists in the 1930s and ‘40s. He is also president of the Tocqueville Society and serves on the editorial boards of The Tocqueville Review and French Politics, Culture, and Society.
In advance of our meeting, Professor Goldhammer has suggested some articles for our Doctoral Fellows to review; we are pleased to share them here, too.
- “In France, the Right Was Humiliated, but What’s Next Is Far From Clear” (Art Goldhammer, The New Republic)
- Art Goldhammer’s Blog (Art Goldhammer’s personal website about French politics)
- “The collapse of Barnier’s government shows bold choices are needed to end France’s political deadlock” (Sébastien Maillard, Chatham House)
- “Emmanuel Macron is no de Gaulle The French President will leave a shoddy legacy” (David A. Bell, UnHerd)
- “Short French Politics Update” (David A. Bell, French Reflections)
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