Results for “democracy”
Slow Democracy
...but enough to matter.” The Slow Democracy Alternative Slow democracy offers broad principles, tools, and vocabulary that citizens can use to create a healthy local democracy. And slow democracy…
What Kind of Democracy Do Localists Want?
...other words–what did philosophical localists think of the 2018 midterm elections, or any elections in our kludgy mass democracy, for that matter? Is there a localist opinion about democracy…
Democracy Against Localism
...a postliberal theory of democracy, and of Danielle Allen’s Justice By Means of Democracy, which I read as a new theory of liberal democracy that seeks to ward off…
Liberalism, Postliberalism, and Localism: A Review of Justice By Means of Democracy
...emergence of concentrations of power, whether wealth holders, social majorities, social minorities, technocratic elites, or demagogues.” Real democracy is what she terms “egalitarian participatory constitutional democracy.” This means that…
Democracy’s Despotic Drift
...clothes and hair in times of sorrow and distress, there has been much lamentation of late regarding the death of democracy. Grounds for being concerned about the current state…
The Future of Democracy in America
...of the older understanding that democracy requires for us to “rule and be ruled in turn.” In our two political parties we see evidence of both definitions of democracy,…
Democracy Dies in Delegation
...have an impoverished conception of democracy. It is not about voting—or rather, not only about voting. Voting is a part of democracy, but in a healthy society, it may…
A Time for Local Democracy
...the politics of cooperation.” Consumer Democracy But in these days of Twitter democracy, when platforms for political expression are so accessible, it sometimes seems, paradoxically, that citizens have little…
Democracy and Coercion
...produces no trustworthy candidates whom we would wish to exercise such coercion. The many do not have the answers, but neither do the few. Democracy is no solution, but…
School Consolidation and Slow Democracy
...ask, “What’s best for our democracy?” This article is excerpted from Slow Democracy: Rediscovering community, bringing decision making back home (Chelsea Green, 2012) and is republished here with permission…
On Latimer, Localism, Liberalism, and Democracy
...reform of democracy that occurred here nearly 1/4 century ago: “People ask if we’re ready for democracy. Being ready for democracy means that you still support the government even…
Democracy Is A Racket
War and Democracy by Paul Gottfried Arktos Media Ltd 170 pp., $21.00 In this slender volume Paul Gottfried addresses everything from the influence of ancient Greek thought on…
Democracy Follies
David Rieff has a nice piece over at Democracy Journal where he takes aim at those who stubbornly insist that exporting American-style democracy is a sound foreign policy. Rieff…
Death by Democracy
George Will argues that Detriot was killed by democracy. Detroit, which boomed during World War II when industrial America was “the arsenal of democracy,” died of democracy. Today, among…
Democracy as Spectacle: The Messianic Compulsions of our Republic
...of American Exceptionalism has finally run its course. After all, we have for so long heard the phrase “American Democracy” that we have come to believe our stage-managed direct…
Education and Democracy in Disembodied Times: Emerson and Dewey on Humane Technology
...worked to align professional higher education with the demands of industrial society. But Dewey’s pragmatic vision was not some sterile, technocratic utopia. Self-cultivation mattered to his sense of democracy…
Sabbath, Tyranny, and Democracy
...argues that democracy has to be learned: For two centuries, the United States was distinguished by its mania for democracy: From early childhood, Americans learned to be citizens by…
Idols, Democracy, and Communion
...these books about the lives and thinking of these women “irresistible.” “Why the Classics: Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates.” Jonathan Tepperman interviews Roosevelt Montás about his new book. A…
Plutocratic Socialism and the Corruption of Democracy
...inequality is seen as synonymous with injustice, one can presumably eliminate inequality—and injustice—by eliminating property. Although our current plutocratic class pays lip service to democracy, self-reliance, and liberty, the…
Local Democracy, Resilient Agriculture, and the Classics
“Vermont’s Superpower, Revealed: The Ability to Practice Local Democracy.” Susan Clark writes about the formative role that Vermont’s annual town meetings play in training citizens to practice democracy. (Recommended…
Whose Nostalgia? Which Liberalism? Reflections on “Faith and Democracy in America”
In early December, the Acton Institute and Calvin College’s Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics co-hosted a conference ambitiously titled “Faith and Democracy in America: Christianity…
Why I am a Monarchist
...Well, perhaps Czechoslovakia, where the divorce was at least peaceful. We have truly made the world safe for democracy; unfortunately, we have made democracy unsafe for the world. The…
Charles Taylor’s Front Porch Democracy
In the wake of the election, Taylor (and the New Yorker!) advocate for some of the central ideas of “Porchism.” http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/how-to-restore-your-faith-in-democracy...
The Case for Confucianism in America: How an Ancient Chinese Philosophical Tradition Could Save Our Fraying Democracy
...alongside the reputations of the once-cherished folk heroes they represented, an overly simplistic but bolstering myth of a just and good free democracy founded by enlightened wise men leading…