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Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Monday, 20 May 2024

America’s Polarised Public Square and the Case of the 2024 Presidential Campaign

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Plato’s tale of shadows being misinterpreted in the cave can be taken as a warning about the dangers of propaganda and misinformation By Kei...
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Monday, 26 June 2023

Ideas Animate Democracy

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Keith Tidman   T he philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once advised, ‘Life can only be understood backwards … but it must be lived forward’ — tha...
Monday, 17 January 2022

Are ‘Ideas’ the Bulwark of Democracy?

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Caricature of Alexis de Tocqueville by Honoré Daumier ( 1849). By Keith Tidman R ecently, Joe Biden asserted that ‘democracy doesn’t happen ...
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Monday, 18 October 2021

On the Appeal of Authoritarianism — and Its Risks

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  On March 30th, Hungary's populist leader, Viktor Orbán, obtained the indefinite recognition of special powers from his parliament, to ...
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Monday, 8 February 2021

Will Democracy Survive?

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Cleisthenes, the Father of Democracy, Invented a Form of Government That Has Endured for 2,500 Years Posted by Keith Tidman H ow well is dem...
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Sunday, 17 January 2021

A Syntocracy

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by Thomas Scarborough Leonardo da Vinci wrote, ‘Realise that everything connects to everything else.’ In recent decades, this has become inc...
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Monday, 26 September 2016

Poetry: Eulogy for Democracy

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“Democracy is the worst form of government, except...” A Eulogy for Democracy  A poem by Chengde Chen  (Breaking news: ...
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Monday, 12 September 2016

Six Imperatives for Saving Syria?

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Posted by Keith Tidman With many powers exercising their claims in Syria—and demonising one another—the conflict long ago morphed ...
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Monday, 25 July 2016

Poetry: BREXIT and 9/11

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The City of London. Although some financiers played  a key role in the LEAVE campaign, others fear loss of access to lucrative European...
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Monday, 13 June 2016

The Unelected Super-Rich Showing Brits to the Exit

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Posted by Martin Cohen O n the 23rd of June 2016, the UK votes on whether or not to 'leave' the European Union and regain full contr...
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The Unelected Super-Rich Showing Brits to the Exit

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Posted by Martin Cohen O n the 23rd of June 2016, the UK votes on whether or not to 'leave' the European Union and regain ful...
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Monday, 6 June 2016

Picture Post No. 13 The Worshippers

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'Because things don’t appear to be the known thing; they aren’t what they seemed to be neither will they become what they might appe...
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