Results for “democracy”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hillary’s Communitarian Moment, and Ours
...Alone,” was published in 1995; and probably the most significant book published by the scholar most thoroughly associated with communitarianism–Democracy’s Discontent, by Harvard professor Michael Sandel–was published in 1996.…
Live Not by Lies from Neither the Left nor Right
...Porch Republic (and Front Porch Republicans) can rally behind. Demons in Democracy Dreher’s overriding theme in Live Not by Lies is that a spineless Christianity is not prepared to…
Gridlock and the Common Good
...future. 3. Loss of robust debate. Christopher Lasch understood that democracy will fail if citizens do not share a common life, which is to say, a common culture. Healthy…
Some Possibly Helpful Thoughts on Localism, Populism, and Proximity During a Pandemic
...see and talk to each person are a key part of village democracy which works because everyone knows each other personally. See “Will of the People: Exploring Original Democracy…
The Places of Teen Pop Culture
...of mind necessary to sustain democratic rule. Given that a certain amount of economic stratification is inevitable in a democracy, Tocqueville saw how the daily interaction among different classes…
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…
Mill, Hayek, and Our Midas Plight
...forest —things that only some of us seem to cherish–but something more far-reaching and widely valued: democracy and civil liberty. One strong principle underlying our freedoms—the rights encoded into…
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…
Thoughts on Elshtain
...of scholarship. Her work on Jane Addams is an important addition to her many writings on democracy and civil society over the years; her book on Augustine was hugely…
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…
Common Good Politics: A Review of Nader’s Book
...I’ve supported efforts to unite the common people. In my view, such unity was possible through a transcendent populism based on grassroots democracy, political decentralization, traditional morality, economic justice,…
Comedians in Togas
...the text down, Reader’s Digest-style, and we act out the characters. The other night, we read Plutarch’s biography of Solon, for example — the man most credited for inventing…
The Holy Earth and Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Front Porch Cred
...themes are: democracy, efficiency, proper contempt, independence, and, finally, the triumvirate of religion, morals, and man’s dominion. A few sentences on each. Democracy Bailey held that it is “very…
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,…
Peter Lawler: R.I.P.
...his life: that democracy produces a particular kind of instability and anxiety, but a kind that is a subspecies of the general difficulty of life itself. Democracy, Lawler believed,…
In Our Memory Lock’d: Memorial Day and the Need to Remember
...shall not have died in vain. Thurow once wrote of the Gettysburg Address: “To the question, Is democracy good?, common opinion answers, Yes, because the people are wise and…
