Tag: democracy
What Is Your Vote?
I’m not asking what candidate you support. What I am asking you to consider is what does your vote constitute?
This question was spurred by...
Vermont Papers Redux
All in all, mark The Vermont Papers down as a brave if idealistic attempt to chart the beginning of a campaign to preserve and refresh liberty, community and democracy in the one small state best suited for such a revival.
Democracy Dies in Delegation
For our elites, democratic values and grand political projects go hand in hand. Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the importance of democracy in adjudicating...
The Case for Confucianism in America: How an Ancient Chinese Philosophical Tradition...
In such times, a centripetal lurch is what we desperately need.
When In Gotham . . .
“How does one critique globalism without succumbing to would-be nationalist despots like Bolsonaro or Trump?”
This was the earnest and sensible question a friend put...
What Kind of Democracy Do Localists Want?
Last week the United States went through another one of our regular, mostly ritualized exercises in mass democracy. What did (or should) localists think...
Review of Suicide of the West
Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy, appearing on Amazon and...
What Wendell Berry’s Brush Teaches Us About Capitalism, Community, and “Inevitability”
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings, the latest collection of writings by Wendell Berry, isn't a perfect book, nor the perfect expression...
The leaders we deserve
I'm heading back to the United States this month to spend some time with my family, and I'm headed back to an America whipped...