Results for “democracy”
Local Democracy, Resilient Agriculture, and the Classics
“Vermont’s Superpower, Revealed: The Ability to Practice Local Democracy.” Susan Clark writes about the formative role that Vermont’s annual town meetings play in training citizens to practice democracy. (Recommended…
“Two Liberals Walk Out of a Pandemic…”
...learned anything from our fifty “laboratories of democracy” when looking at lockdowns and school closures. While it is true that throughout the Covid years red states did their thing…
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…
Monarchy and the American Constitution
...on the British Constitution, but if the British government is a true reflection of that constitution, then it is merely a pure democracy with a vestigial monarchy. Parliamentary supremacy…
Whose Nostalgia? Which Liberalism? Reflections on “Faith and Democracy in America”
In early December, the Acton Institute and Calvin College’s Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics co-hosted a conference ambitiously titled “Faith and Democracy in America: Christianity…
Sustaining a Republic of Hustlers, Pt. II
...alike, and wondered at their genius for making both serve the national purpose. Throes of Democracy, by contrast, appeared in early 2008 and was influenced by the mood of…
Thoughts on the British Riots
...the crisis of consumer capitalism, or the crisis of multiculturalism (though it is the crisis of all these things to a lesser extent). Fundamentally, it is the crisis of…
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.…
Red Tories in America
...“Phillip as we all know reform of the Market State depends not just on changes in political democracy but also in economic democracy. Here are some questions for you…
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…
Civic Muscle: A Political Physiology
...lacking in the writings of scholars and practitioners. For example, Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar at the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, explains that civic muscle refers to “people’s…
Lead for America: Encouraging Graduates to Return Home
...communities. As Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America, our municipal institutions are the strength of free nations and the primary schools of democracy. And we also believe that strong…
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…
Democracies Need Shared Literature
...(425 BCE), was that in the Athenian democracy, the most democratic space of all was the free dramatic performances, the tragedies and comedies that the city put on for…
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…
A Guide for the Uncurious: On Post-Liberalism
...be found in the work of the quite liberal Alexis de Tocqueville. But Tocqueville, precisely because he is a friend to liberal democracy, does not idly flatter liberal democracy.…
Southern Adulteration
...and individualistic tendencies of democracy. In aristocratic societies, the clan, extending across generations, give shape to morality, love, culture, and even the topography. In a pure democracy, the individual…
Art and Community
...his preferred artistic displays beyond the “common sense” judgment of the community. But this is precisely what art in a democracy must consider and respect, the sense and sensibility…
An Athenian Coup, or Slapstick Bedtime Story?
For tonight’s lesson, I said to my ten-year-old, tell me how the first democracy was created. “Sure,” she said, remembering our lessons past. “It was in Athens, about 2,500…
