Wendy Brown

Wendy Brown is UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her latest book is Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber.

The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

  • Wendy Brown
  • Francis Wade

The Power of Rights

The only thing the disenfranchised need as badly as rights is absolute clear-sightedness about power.

  • Wendy Brown
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