What Philip Gourevitch thinks about democracy
American journalist and author; longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and a former editor of The Paris Review; author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (1998), on the Rwandan genocide.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Philip Gourevitch has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingIt is insane that the Supreme Court holds the power to save or end American electoral democracy.
Their wordsit’s every bit as insane that the supreme court should have acquired this power to serve as the firing squad or to grant a stay of execution to our electoral democracy as it is that the president has arrogated that power