Results for “democracy”
Made in Vermont
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY. It’s town meeting day in the once and future republic of Vermont. Herewith, from the American Conservative, my profile of Frank Bryan, the University of Vermont…
Civility and Democracy
...primarily of the classroom setting. (Do any of you have children?) The original ("Civility and Democracy" discussion) RESONATES with a core decline in classroom behavior - and the "thumbing…
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…
What He Saw in America: G.K. Chesterton’s View of the United States
...modern thing called industrialism” and “the very ancient thing called democracy.” Industrial capitalism and ideal democracy are everywhere in controversy; but perhaps only here are they in conflict. .…
The Homeless Modern
...of established church or at least religious ethos. Not that we have democracy as such in general, we have mixed gov'ts, as all half-stable gov'ts but be, they are…
Beyond Josh Lyman Politics: How the West Wing Miseducated My Political Generation
...As Theda Skocpol pointed out in her wonderful book Democracy Diminished, we have moved from a “membership democracy” to a “management democracy” in the past century. A once-thriving national…
After the Second Cheer: A Review of Two Cheers for Politics
...representative democracy in an industrial and technological society need not be a “chastened” and “uninspiring” echo of classical direct democracy. It could be, in a sense, more direct than…
Why I am a Member of the Permanent Opposition
...on Fox News but a Monarchy? I'd assert we'd see anarchy sooner than we'd see monarchy, given the general dyspeptic petulance afoot. We are hardly a "pure democracy", though…
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…
A Burke for Our Times
...bear to see the crimes of new democracy posted as in a ledger against the crimes of old despotism, and the book-keepers of politics finding democracy still in debt,…
Review of Suicide of the West
...friendly to liberal democracy to be naïve regarding liberal democracy. The threats to democracy do not come from primitive urges or “ancient ideas,” argues Tocqueville, but from within democracy…
Free America, The Front Porch Republic, and America’s Decentralist Tradition
...belief that property’s true importance lies in its use-value rather than its exchange-value. The political implications of this commitment can be seen in Agar’s opening editorial proclamation that “without…
Vermont Papers Redux
...Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale. We dedicated it to “the memory of Ethan Allen and all those hardscrabble Vermonters who, in his tradition, and through their cussedness…
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…
انه الاقتصاد، غبي
...corrupt rulers and install a true democracy, one that will actually count the votes and permit all sorts of parties. The bright sun of democracy will bring freedom and…
Tocqueville’s Diagnosis
...but, more broadly, of democracy per se. Tocqueville found himself standing on the cusp of a new world. Aristocratic structures were crumbling in Europe and had never gained purchase…
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…
The leaders we deserve
...they hear my accent these days they do want to know what I think of the Trump juggernaut. Before I focus on the electorate I should note that democracy,…
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…
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Exceptionalism: Exegeting Tocqueville
...in the early nineteenth century was mixed at best and negative at worst. He obviously wished that democracy had produced a more learned and refined culture than it had…
Thoughts on Dallmayr and a Different Post-Liberalism
...response to the actions and decisions of fellow members of their polity is reactionary. He prefers what he calls an “apophatic” democracy, a deliberative democracy that is “receptively generous,”…
The Lost Children
...the constitutional system of federalism, and the principle of democracy. The court unleashed something deeply regressive. There are many ironies in the movement for legalized abortion. Although it is…
Politics on a Human Scale: Historiography
...says that Nader understands “the central truth (or, if you prefer, the central problem) of democracy in a post-industrial, late capitalist, globalized, technology-ridden age: that to enable real local…
What Urban Liberals Might Learn From Rural Rebels
...there, profit-seeking corporations might not be such a substantial affront to the moral economy of democracy. Perhaps the legal creation of what I see as “for-profit democracy”…could stay in…