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Category Archives: Democracy
The Lost Generation In Liberal Democracy 3.0
Stephen Turner’s Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts provides a theoretical framework that explains the structural mechanisms behind the phenomenon described in Jacob Savage’s essay, “The Lost Generation.” While Savage’s essay offers a sociological and data-driven … Continue reading
Making Democratic Theory Democratic: Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen
Here are some highlights from this 2023 book by Stephen Turner and George Mazur: * The term “administrative state” is now being treated as an invention of the paranoid Right and a misunderstanding of the nature of the state itself. … Continue reading
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How are liberalism and democracy at odds?
Grok says: “Liberalism and democracy can be at odds because liberalism emphasizes individual rights, limited government, and protections against majority rule, while democracy prioritizes majority rule and collective decision-making. Liberalism seeks to constrain state power through checks like constitutions or … Continue reading
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Prior To The Recent Supreme Court Ruling On Presidential Immunity, The Presidency Already Had All The Foreign Policy Power Of King George III
Holly Brewer writes for The New Republic July 1, 2024: The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law. Five members … Continue reading
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Republic vs Democracy
Firefighter John Aldieri posts: “By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. Although … Continue reading
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The Ideology of Democratism
Emily B. Finley writes in this 2022 book: * democratism is a hypothetical or ideal conception of democracy that is only tenuously connected to the actual, historical desires of real popular majorities. * Democratism can perhaps best be summed up … Continue reading
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Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (4-5-22)
From the 2003 book by Stephen Turner, Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts: * In Liberal Democracy 3.0, the slow transformation is from a politics of sovereign citizens to a politics of diffused experts, in which … Continue reading
The information tsunami that rolled over the elites
Martin Gurri writes: The mass movements that challenged democracy in the last century were erected on Taylorist principles. All appealed to science. All were controlled like machines from the top by a “vanguard” who represented the future. At the same … Continue reading
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Is Democracy Nationalist?
An essay from the New Zealand New Right: Both Alain De Benoist and Tomislav Sunic have written on democracy and Carl Schmitt’s interpretation of the concept. Both agree that, by Schmitt’s definition, democracy is, surprisingly enough, not anti-nationalist. According to … Continue reading
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Boston Globe: Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
We’re talking about the Deep State. Democracy, to a large extent, is a sham. Link: The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon THE VOTERS WHO put Barack Obama in office expected some … Continue reading