All right! My time-shifted week has finally come to an end. Today, for paid subscribers, we reflect on the tension between #democracy and nationalist projects, and the challenges for maintaining democracy even locally when statist rhetoric reigns on the world stage.

The free-to-read section involves a follow-up to Tuesday's post on ceasefire propaganda, by looking at how one politician in particular served his war effort well by undermining trust in global institutions.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/is-full-democracy-ever-feasible