The Case for 'Democratic Minimalism'
Liberalism may not be appropriate in Muslim-majority contexts. But I still believe that a minimalistic conception of democracy would be.
Here’s a thoughtful review by the writer and Anglican priest Michael F. Bird of my 2022 book The Problem of Democracy, which is about how to think about democracy when it produces “bad” outcomes, as it inevitably will.
Bird kindly calls it a “fascinating book about democracy, liberalism, geo-politics, American foreign policy, how I…




