Results for “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…
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…
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,”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,”…