While political scientists know alot, the 2024 election shows that we clearly don’t know everything!  The same can be said for our political leaders.  In this session we will think about what we have learned and what we still need to learn about elections and forming governments in a democracy after November 2024. Talk February 7 2025

Further Reading/Viewing

Ahmed, N. (2017, July 30). Pentagon study declares American empire is ‘collapsing’. Canadian Dimension. https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/pentagon-study-declares-american-empire-is-collapsing

Bambrough, B. (2025, February 2). ‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan/?utm_source=pocket_shared

Beauchamp, Z. (2024, November 20). The messy contradictions of Trump’s second-term coalition | Vox. Vox.Com. https://www.vox.com/politics/386299/trump-administration-coalition-economic-foreign-policy

Cardinale, K. (2022, May 25). The making of a Tech Authoritarian. From Plato to Trumpism.https://www.lettsjournal.com/p/the-making-of-a-tech-authoritarian

Cosmo (Director). (2025, January 20). The Secret Life of Chaos | Beyond Order [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inofGyvshoQ

Dalhousie University (Director). (2024, November 20). The 2024 Stanfield Conversation: The US Election and Democracy’s Global Fate | Dalhousie University [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMgA_oJ3mDE

Danner, C. (2025, February 3). Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number. Intelligencer. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-doge-treasury-access-federal-payments.html

Davis, C. (2024, October 6). Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? [Substack newsletter]. Matriarchal Blessing. https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college

Elliott, V. (2025, February 2). The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

Garcia, I. (2022, October 12). U.S. Senate: Blake Masters dislikes the country’s direction. Cronkite News. https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2022/10/12/us-senate-blake-masters-republican-arizona-venture-capitalist/

Jacobs, B. (2022, May 20). How Gen X Became the Trumpiest Generation. POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-westrich-alt-rock-gen-x-maga-00033769

Levitsky, S., & Ziblatt, D. (2018). How Democracies Die. Crown Publishers.

McGreal, C. (2025, January 26). How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

McMaster, G. (2024, June 29). Four critical things to know about critical race theory. University of Alberta Folio. https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2022/06/four-critical-things-to-know-about-critical-race-theory.html?utm_source=pocket_shared

Monbiot, G. (2024, January 6). What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network

Reich, R. (2025, January 26). The stunning real story behind Trump’s first week—Alternet.org. Alternet. https://www.alternet.org/trumps-first-week/

Sam Friedman, D. L. (2020). The Class Ceiling. Bristol University Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/the-class-ceiling

Schuman, M. (2024, November 9). The American Global Order Could End. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/us-world-power-over-election/680595/

Shapiro, A. (2022, October 3). Come along as we connect the dots between climate, migration and the far-right. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1125746902/climate-change-migration-far-right-political-extremism

Slobodian, Q. (2023, April 4). The Wonderful Death of a State | Quinn Slobodian. The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-wonderful-death-of-a-state-slobodian

The Ezra Klein Show (Director). (2025, February 4). Don’t Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s

Tusikov, N. (2025). How Might Trump’s Big Tech Agenda Affect Canada? Centre for International Governance Innovation. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/how-might-trumps-big-tech-agenda-affect-canada/

Waller, J. G. (2022, February 20). Authoritarianism Here? American Affairs Journal. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/authoritarianism-here/