Results for “democracy”
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What the Fork; Or, Why You Should Not Eat the Person Sitting Next to You
...of world history most thinkers were opposed to democracy: seeing the table manners of most common people, they concluded that it would not be a good idea to give…
What’s Modernity Marx Got to Do With It? (FPR vs. PoMoCon, Part Drei)
...could argue that I do tend towards the "intrinsic" reading of social democracy, because I think our natures our disposed toward communitarian forms of social organization, and social democracy--with…
New World Order
...This basic insight (which had some relationship to medieval theories of constitutionalism, albeit without a concept of “human will” at its core) laid the groundwork for theories of modern…
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Rebuilding an American Economy Focused on Family and Community
...same time, their commitment to the ideal of economic democracy, their refusal to treat human labor and relationships as commodities like any other, their sympathy for the pluralism and…
John Calvin and the Land of Chocolate
...this is necessarily so. Ideas do actually have consequences. Liberal democracy arose naturally where it arose, and was quite successful (or less morbid) where it arose, because of Calvinism.…
