Results for “democracy”
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…
Facts, Bears, and Democracy
...at least, one can make an intelligent critique of postliberalism.” “Our Democracy is Menaced by Two Dragons. Here’s How to Slay Them.” Danielle Allen agrees with Deneen about the…
Wheeler Catlett, the Study, and Democracy
...to Save Democracy.” Yascha Mounk assesses the debates in recent years over whether journalists should take on a more activist role and argues that such efforts consistently backfire: “Journalists…
A Dress Code for Democracy
...out space for something common and shared. If democracy is to be more than a slogan, it must begin with the habits that teach us to live together. The…
The Long Run
...- among other features. The challenge for modern democracy is to fortify ways to resist its inherent defects in ways that are internally consistent with democracy. Your formulation that…
Foreign Policy and the Gift of the World
...great danger about American foreign policy is that it really is about spreading democracy, or rather spreading a particular democratic institution: periodic elections as the sole basis of legitimacy.…
Fighting Demons, Liberal and Otherwise
...diagnosis of our times and offers various curatives to our ills. Pabst’s title should call to mind the recent work by Polish thinker Ryszard Legutko, The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian…
Defending Lasch, Left and/or Right
...aspirations were generally clear: he liked democracy, and believed in equality (among his last political acts were a vote for Bill Clinton in 1992, and speaking out in favor…
Real Communities and Democratic Theory
...of democracy, insisting that when modern democracy aspires to an ideal of deliberation it can “[bring] citizens together in recognition of one another’s equal membership in the political order,”…
Dollarocracy: Money-Power, Media-Framed Elections and Inequality
...of John Nichols and Robert McChesney to benefit from their well-researched observations on democracy’s decay into what they call “dollarocracy.” There is gold here, mixed with dross. Democracy under…
American Self-Loathing
...the division in our souls: two versions of democracy. In the one version, democracy is rugged individualism. In the other, democracy is a gentler concern that no one should…
Civic Engagement and the “Native Country”
...people, then serious reflection on what we might call “the problem of place” is appropriate for citizens and policymakers. The natural tendency of modern democracy is toward despotism. Modern…
The Next Time You’re in New Hampshire
...to disable them within minutes of buying a new car. But Nader and his Raiders made safety a Serious Matter. When something becomes serious in a democracy, those-who-will-do-us-good take…
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism Pt. III
...of man, Lewis settled on democracy (not majoritarianism, but self-government as in Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America), considering it the least bad political structure. It should be established…
Monarchy and Regalism
...were carried out from Delhi. The republic was declared by the force of Indian leaders. King did not take decisions under foreign pressure. Nepali Congress's major ideology is constitutional…
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…
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…
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,…
