In his book “Liberty in Peril,” Randall Holcombe challenges the presumption that liberty and democracy are complementary. When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those lacunae undermined my ability to adequately understand many things. Randall Holcombe’s new book, Liberty in Peril: …
The Chinese Communist Party announced Thursday that it would propose sweeping new national security laws for Hong Kong, effectively bypassing Hong Kong’s local government to amend its current independent legal system. The head of China’s top political body, Wang Yang, announced Thursday that the move would be an “improvement” to the Basic Law, which has …