Results for “democracy”
Human Interaction: The Most Essential Business
...planes from their native countries, putting an ocean between themselves and their former communities. A century and a half ago, in his classic book Democracy in America, Alexis de…
TikTok Democracy, AI Parenting, and Rooted Virtue
...“Democracy by the Book.” Antón Barba-Kay reflects on the relationship between the medium of print and the institutions that sustain democracy: “the deterioration of democratic practices and institutions during…
Trump and the Furies of Empire
...with their somnambulant, self-soothing rhetoric about democracy. We are bringing democracy and freedom to the world, the TV told us, and we nodded along. Then came the assassinations of…
Theses on Unions, Wisconsin, and Other Things
...recall the eight Senate Republicans who are eligible for judgment this year, and to defeat Walker and the other Republicans in a year or two, when they become vulnerable…
Multiply Your Associations and be Free
...is tyranny by the 99% of the 1%. Not to mention how watered down our "democracy" is these days. Population has grown while representation hasn't, therefore representation is weaker…
Straw Men and the Possibility of Community in Modernity
...forth a “theory of democracy,” seeing my book’s critique of the theory of Deliberative Democracy as an internal one grounded in shared premises regarding the moral priority of democracy,…
Progressive Liberalism Or: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Big Government
...genuine democracy. Meaningful, i.e. direct and bottom-up democracy, in which the agenda is set at the grassroots level, is impossible in a society managed by large organizations. Galbraith's "technostructure"…
Patmore: Prophetic Political Pessimist (and Localist?)
...“We are, in a sense, the purest democracy. We have become a despotism. Have you not noticed how continually in history democracy becomes despotism? People call it the decay…
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…
Will No One Rid Me Of These Meddlesome -Isms: Thinking and Rethinking Liberalism
...the dominant ethos of democracy will give rise to individualism and a lack of concern for public things. Tocqueville may have been a liberal, but he was a moderate…
Is America Ungovernable?
...always been, and thus it will always be. In itself, this is not too bad; everybody should have a voice in drafting legislation, and compromise, while cumbersome, is likely…
When Lawyers Catch the French Disease
...in the bad tragedy of American history is a Tocqueville moment of sorts, and is therefore worthy of a few quotations from Democracy in America. For good reason, four…
Playing the Long Game: A Review of Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship
...a liberal democracy with a true exemplar of that calling. As Schaff writes, “Lincoln sought to revitalize a democracy that was losing sight of its highest aspirations and giving…
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…
American Spirit
...to so-called others and the slashing apart of our social fabric. Here is Parker Palmer in his inspired 2011 book Healing the Heart of Democracy on the possible implications…
Citizenship and Its Discontents
...sound. A substantial number of McWilliams’s writings have been gathered in two edited volumes that have been released in the last month or two: Redeeming Democracy in America and…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: How to (Actually) Save Humanity
...Not quite—after all the democratic system actually has to live up to its potential. What is needed in society is not just democracy, but a culture of empathetic deliberative…
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…
Putting the Demos on a Pedestal
...entirely. And to my mind, that means, inevitably and frustratingly, a shift away from actual democracy as well. Deneen has elsewhere written thoughtfully—though I also think somewhat tendentiously—about the…
Politics Before History
...Immemorial, Daniel Goldenhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners, and dozens of other books have all left an outsized legacy on the public despite near universal condemnation from other historians. Heather Cox…
A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton’s Court
...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 democracy, and to engender real…
The Triumph of the Liberal State
...a collectivist philosophy. It is a laissez faire philosophy. Socialism, social democracy, and monasticism are all collectivist philosophies. Conflating liberalism with social democracy, then posing that the conflation is…
Is Regime Change too Radical? Or too Conservative?
...write more about - I'm planning to review Danielle Allen's new book, Justice By Means of Democracy, for FPR soon. I think putting her defense and reworking of the…
The Practice of Attachment and A Comprehensive Social Order
...knowledge of American democracy, the historical lessons drawn from this experience, or that which pertains to well-informed voting. These, it should be noted, are features of democracy as a…
