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Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Democracy's Darker Side and How It Has Been Exploited By Putin and the Far Right

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by Nomad "The Tyranny of the Minorities" The other night, I was talking to a conservative friend about democracy. He ...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

What Happens When Young People Lose Their Faith in Democracy

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by Nomad T he Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ),  José Ángel Gurría , has tho...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Trump and the Lessons of the Rise of Benito Mussolini

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by Nomad Comparing Donald Trump  to some of the more infamous dictators of the past is pretty standard fare nowadays. However, witho...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Is Putin's Majoritarian Democracy the Alt-Right's Fast Track to Fascism in America?

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by Nomad In the hands of a corrupt leader, majoritarian democracy can be a very dangerous thing. Russian president Putin is all the p...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Justice Louis Brandeis on the Choice We Have

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by Nomad
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Langston Hughes on Democracy

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by Nomad
Saturday, January 9, 2016

The Vitally Important Lessons that Syrian Refugees Have to Teach America

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by Nomad A recent article from Detroit reminds us that Syrian refugees have something important to teach all of us about where we came f...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

JFK and the Ignorance of Voters

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by Nomad
Monday, January 28, 2013

Aaron Swartz: Thoughts on the Death of an Idealist

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by Nomad The tragic story of Aaron Swartz, and the events that led up to him taking his life,  got me thinking deep thoughts about the a...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

What the NRA Doesn’t Want You to Know: The Fallacy of Democracy and Gun-Ownership Rights

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by Nomad W e have all heard it. The conventional wisdom states- or at least, implies, that private gun ownership is a protection aga...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Angry Right Wing Voter: Have We Gone Too Far? 2/2

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by Nomad In the previous post, we examined the problem of rage, hate and anger that seems to have become an integral part of American pol...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Uncomfortable Truth about Iran: How the US Lost a World

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 by Nomad Amid all the advertisements for gas-guzzling cars, there is an interesting editorial from LIFE magazine, dated May 21, 1951...