It is a mistake to take democracy for granted. It was nearly destroyed by the onslaught of totalitarianism and human perversity in the twentieth century. And there are many who...
The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven remarkable people, six Arabs and an Iranian.
From the Gettysburg Address to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, this updated edition introduces the landmark statements and moments that are impacting our nation today.
Addresses the important question of the relationship between education and democracy in four countries committed to a democratic form of government - Britain, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It argues...
U.S. Congress, H.R. 698, 38th Cong., 2nd sess., 20 February 1865. Charles Sumner's proposal that year mentions ... John David Smith, “The Enduring Myth of 'Forty Acres and a Mule,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 (February 2003), B11.
Listening to Disability: Voices of Democracy
See The Society of the Spectacle (Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans.; Zone Books, 1995). For more on threshold functions and their importance for urban life, see Concrete Reveries, especially chs. 7 and 8. 4 Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis ...
Muravchik brings to light the stories of seven remarkable people, six Arabs and an Iranian. Five are men; two, women. Four are Sunnis, two are Shiites, and the seventh is mixed.
Looking beyond new voting machines and other quick fixes for our electoral predicament, this new edition of Real Choices/New Voices offers a timely and imaginative way out of the frustrations of our current system of choosing leaders.
The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World.