What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism.
A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others..
It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers.
What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism