The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, 关键在于用事实去说服听众。 as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's rights: 就像索茹尔内·特鲁斯关于女权的观点一样: "I have as much muscle as ...
We still need to do this. Democracy, as an idea, ideal and reality, is weaker now than at any time for fifty years. Fewer and fewer people trust democratic institutions or democratic outcomes, and the level of accurate information and personal empowerment in the system is dropping. ...
How Do We Educate for Democracy?If we continue to force children to memorize the dates of wars without asking why we have...By ShakerErika
One way that democracy can be made more sustainable, he says, is the use of an idea called Empowered Participatory Governance (EPG). Walker explains that EPG, at a local level, focuses on specific, tangible problems, involving ordinary people affected by these problems and officials close to t...
aHow do and how should democracies cope with and respond to fear? Or, more bluntly, is fear bad for democracy? In the preceding chapters we have explored how Thucydides presents fear in democracy in his History and the arguments that he makes about it. 怎么和应该民主应付与和反应恐惧? 或者...
摘要: Presents the text of a remark given by college teacher Francis Fukuyama of the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies department of Johns Hopkins University on May 24, 2005 during the meeting of the New York Democracy Forum, which deals with the promotion of democracy....
How would we govern ourselves? It�s unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. The modern representative democracy was the best form of government that mid-18th-century technology could conceive of. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially. ...
Discusses the loss of Canadian democracy, whilst focusing on the corporate takeover of Canada's economy and its political system. Reference to the plans of four banks in Canada to merge without prior government approval; Views on the contents of the books, 'The Cult of Impotence,' and 'The...
they're having to our public health, our public square and our democracy. But unfortunately, this won't happen in time for the US presidential election, so I am continuing to raise this alarm, because even if one day we do have strong rules in place, it will take all of us to fix ...
used to be the soul of being a Republican. But Donald Trump has suffocated the soul of the Republican Party." He went on to say, "I know Kamala Harris shares my allegiance to the rule of law, the Constitution and democracy … Whatever policies we disagree on pale in comparison with th...