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