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Bernd Reiter

Bernd Reiter is a political scientist and professor of Luso-Latin American Studies at Texas Tech University.

A performance of the "Oedipus" plays by Sophocles, 1996. (Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Can theater save democracy? It’s not an idle question — it’s happened before

Bernd Reiter
A detachment of German soldiers on their way to install parking signs in preparation for the 8th Congress of the Nazi Party at Nuremberg, 3rd September 1936. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Aggrieved white men are a threat to democracy — history tells us we can’t ignore them

Bernd Reiter
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Voting could be the problem with democracy

Bernd Reiter