Liberal democracy was once a form of government. Now it has become a shallow civic religion and it really sucks.

INTERVIEW. For sociologist and political scientist Dominique Schnapper, there is a risk of disorder linked to questioning the principles of democratic order.

Liberal democracy was once a form of government. Now it has become a shallow civic religion and it really sucks.

The Carolabrücke in Dresden collapsed over six months ago, and the city still has yet to pull the rubble out of the Elbe, let alone outline concrete plans for its replacement. Democracy!The plague chronicle has been operating at low capacity for some weeks now. This been a time of transition for me – of moving vans, of boxes, of packing and unpacking, of great chaos, as I have begun shifting my life from the pre-Alpine foothills of upper Bavaria…