For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel ...

Democracy requires deliberation. As James Fishkin notes in his 2020 book “Democracy When the People Are Thinking,” voting without adequate information, debate and the opportunity of reflective ...

Mr. Sumption, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Britain, is the author of “The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law.” As an observer of democracies and a constitutional lawyer in ...