Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Monday, December 09, 2019

"How America Ends: A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?"

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Medieval demographics, Ljubljana. A long read, a good read. The Census Bureau projects that America will become “minority white” by 204...
Sunday, September 08, 2019

"America's 'democratic experiment' is inextricably tied to the history of slavery."

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Solid, thought-provoking essay for Sunday morning coffee. But maybe you'd rather be watching a film derived from a comic book. Ame...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

"(Spain's) transition to democracy ignored the demands of justice. That is why it succeeded."

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Valle de los Caidos. There was a period in the 1990s when I visited Spain every second year for the purpose of watching runners with bu...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Five ways that capitalism subverts freedom and democracy.

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One of Jim Bouton's most enduring Ball Four anecdotes has to do with a Seattle Pilots teammate who had a particularly vehement spat ...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

Authoritarian nostalgia, or historical education as antidote to historical amnesia.

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Photo credit. It goes without saying that "historical amnesia" appears to be the basis of the curriculum in the United Stat...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

7 Days of Piketty: Sunday, or "Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic."

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I'm publishing seven days of links to web material about Thomas Piketty and his book,  Capital in the Twenty-first Century . Piketty ...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

George Monbiot, and exploring "the ways in which we could restore political life by restoring community life."

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These things sneak up on you, and it's all part of the unceasing learning curve -- and if you really believe you learned everything you ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Democracy is being crushed by transnational corporations, which is why I say "Death to Chains."

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As an appetizer, Matt Taibbi savages Thomas Friedman's new book. Late Is Enough: On Thomas Friedman's New Book (Taibbi; Rolli...
Thursday, October 06, 2016

Democracy? You know, the "lies, fearmongering and fables."

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That's about the size of it. Lies, fearmongering and fables: that’s our democracy , by George Monbiot ( The Guardian ) People power...
Friday, September 30, 2016

About your residence in one of two bubbles.

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I'm a longtime fan of Timothy Garton Ash's work. He was on hand in Eastern Europe during the latter end times, and saw first-hand th...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

The incredible pervasiveness of dim: Jürgen Habermas as restorative.

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Gadflies, consciousness, moral compass ... Meanwhile, in New Albany you're stonewalled for a year and a half just trying to learn how ...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

"Ten Ways to Democratize the Economy," apart from the parties.

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I won't be long-winded about this, as the article is lengthy and thought-provoking. The fundamental difference between me and either J...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Voting: Financial security, illiteracy and moral framing.

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Frequent reader S introduces the topic of voting (and non-voting) patters of the financially insecure with this comment. This probably sa...
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