| ‘A Triumph of Techniques Over Purpose’* |
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Oct 4, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Torture: A Mockery of America’s Regime Principles |
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Jan 1, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Higher Education Graduation Rates and Responsibility |
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Jan 2, 2011
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Soundings |
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| A Tale of Democratic Political Frailty, Fractiousness and Human Dignity |
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Jan 3, 2017
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Soundings |
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| A House Divided: Blaming the Poor |
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Jan 4, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Note from Max Stephenson |
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Nov 4, 2019
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Soundings |
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| On Empathy and Democratic Possibility |
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Jan 5, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Considering the Promise and Challenge of International Adoption |
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Jan 6, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Pondering The Travesty of [Mis]Representation |
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Jan 6, 2013
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Soundings |
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| On the Nexus of Morality, Justice and Civilization |
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Jan 6, 2020
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Soundings |
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| A Presidency of Lies, Fearmongering and Human Degradation |
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Jan 7, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Revisiting a Central Puzzle of Democracy and of Current U.S. Politics |
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Jan 8, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Reflections on Human Empathy and Empathetic Leadership |
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Apr 8, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Rhetoric has Consequences |
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Jan 9, 2011
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Soundings |
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| Reflections on Sedition, Political Courage and Self-Governance |
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Jan 11, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Embracing Democracy and Reconciliation in Principle |
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Jan 12, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Charting the Policy and Democratic Perils of Ideological Extremism |
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Jan 13, 2013
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Soundings |
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| “Borderline Insanity,” Modernity and Democratic Possibility |
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Jan 14, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Democratic Expectations: A Nation of Toddlers? |
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Jan 16, 2010
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Soundings |
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| Markets Cannot Serve as Political Arbiters |
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Jan 16, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Bullying, Derision and Democracy Make Poor Bedfellows |
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Jan 17, 2017
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Soundings |
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| On Sharing the Facts but Imagining Politics Otherwise |
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Jan 17, 2023
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Soundings |
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| On Human Dignity |
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Jan 19, 2014
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Soundings |
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| On Epistemology and Democratic Politics |
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Jan 19, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Guns, Ugly Fantasies and Democratic Politics |
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Jan 19, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Pondering Culture, Democracy and Development |
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Jan 20, 2010
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Soundings |
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| Tolerance is a Key Wellspring for Freedom Amidst Diversity |
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Jan 20, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Pondering Hate and its Political Abuse |
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Jan 20, 2020
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Soundings |
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| On Human Darkness and Democratic Possibility |
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Jan 22, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Refusing to Hate or Fear the Unknown |
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Jan 22, 2024
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Soundings |
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| Universities and the Problem of Social Organization |
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Jan 23, 2011
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Soundings |
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| The "Southern Strategy" Revisited |
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Jan 23, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Democratic Governance Rests on a Shared Civil Religion |
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Jan 25, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Democracy at Work? The Age-old Challenge of “Local” Majoritarianism |
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Jan 26, 2011
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Soundings |
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| Pondering the Dilemma of Complexity |
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Jan 26, 2014
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Soundings |
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| On the “Idea of the Nation” |
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Jan 27, 2013
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Soundings |
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| The Perils of False Binaries and Magical Thinking |
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Jan 28, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Pondering the Character of Democratic Community and Possibility |
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Jan 29, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Of Philanthropy and Individualism |
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Jan 30, 2010
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Soundings |
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| On the Misuse of Rhetoric and its Consequences for Democracy |
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Jan 30, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Shadowboxing with Words |
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Jan 30, 2023
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Soundings |
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| Revisiting "Dual Sovereignty" |
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Feb 1, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Anxiety, Willful Blindness and Democracy |
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Feb 1, 2015
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Soundings |
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| The State of the Union: An Angst-Filled Trajectory for Self-Governance |
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Feb 1, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Pete Seeger, Democracy’s Tireless Bard |
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Feb 2, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Ongoing Social and Cultural Marketization and the Myth of Political Control |
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Feb 3, 2013
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Soundings |
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| The Costs of Reconciling with the Irreconcilable |
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Feb 3, 2020
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Soundings |
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| The Idea of the Nation |
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Feb 5, 2012
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Soundings |
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| “Scraping off the Essence of Things” |
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Feb 5, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Coping with Anguish in America |
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Feb 6, 2010
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Soundings |
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| American Federalism and the Enduring Myth of a False Sovereign |
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Feb 6, 2011
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Soundings |
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| Sliding Toward Post-Truth and Pre-Fascism* |
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Feb 8, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Revisiting the Ivory Tower Myth |
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Feb 9, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Mr. McCain, Partisanship and Prudential Judgment |
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Feb 10, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Mediated Meaning, Public Salience and Fear |
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Feb 11, 2010
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Soundings |
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| Facets of a Diamond |
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Feb 11, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Torture and Politics in an Age of Anxiety |
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Feb 12, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Lies, Legitimacy and Democratic Truths |
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Feb 13, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Tribalism is not the Nation’s Central Governance Problem |
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Feb 13, 2023
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Soundings |
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| Hatred, Fear and Human Dignity |
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Feb 15, 2015
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Soundings |
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| On Anti-“Political Correctness” Posturing, Human Dignity and Self-Governance |
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Feb 15, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Democracy, Freedom and Heterogeneity |
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Feb 16, 2014
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Soundings |
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| The Continuing Saga of the Chuck Hagel Nomination |
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Feb 17, 2013
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Soundings |
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| These Truths are “Self-Evident” No Longer |
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Feb 17, 2020
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Soundings |
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| On ‘Changemakers,’ Education and Democratic Self-Governance |
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Feb 18, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Democracy's Enduring Tensions |
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Feb 20, 2012
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Soundings |
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| An Unaccountable Turn and an Indefensible Twist |
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Feb 21, 2022
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Soundings |
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| On Incitement to Hatred, Sedition and the Way Forward |
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Feb 22, 2021
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Soundings |
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| The Policy Consequences of Democratic Paranoia and Delusion |
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Feb 23, 2014
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Soundings |
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| On the Fearful Consequences of Human Fear for Human Dignity and Freedom |
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Feb 24, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Of Freedom and Dark, Cruel Lies |
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Feb 25, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Musing on Service and "Practical Idealism" |
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Feb 26, 2012
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Soundings |
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| The Wayfaring Stranger |
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Feb 27, 2011
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Soundings |
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| “Democratic Deconsolidation,” Freedom of the Press and the Primacy of Politics |
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Feb 27, 2017
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Soundings |
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| The Common Good, Today’s GOP, Morality and Democratic Politics |
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Feb 29, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Paranoia, Politics and Jeremiads, American Style |
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Mar 1, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Democratic Sovereignty is no Guarantor of Freedom |
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Mar 2, 2014
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Soundings |
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| “There is a Crack in Everything: That’s How the Light Gets in” * |
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Mar 2, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Undermining Democratic Self-Governance via Ideological Absolutism |
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Mar 3, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Mobilizing Rhetoric as Emblem of Enervating Democratic Capacity |
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Mar 5, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Observations on a Brief Visit to Nigeria |
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Mar 6, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Redeeming Democratic Possibility |
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Mar 8, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| When Empathy Withers |
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Mar 9, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| When Turnabout is Not Fair Play |
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Mar 10, 2013
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Soundings |
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| The "Secret Garden" of Democratic Imagination |
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Mar 11, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Pondering a Once Shared Covenant, Preaching Limitless Individualism |
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Mar 12, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Evan Bayh had it Right |
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Mar 13, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| A Descent into Brutish Crudity and Demagoguery |
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Mar 14, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| Lessons from Myanmar for Human Rights and Democracy |
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Mar 14, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| The New Absolutism in American Politics |
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Mar 15, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| The Democratic Fable of ‘The People’ as Unaccountable Innocents |
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Mar 16, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| A Cri de Coeur Regarding our Present Governance Crisis |
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Mar 16, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Democratic Politics, Dignity and Freedom |
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Mar 17, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Rights, Morality and Campaign Politics |
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Mar 18, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Of Democratic Greatness and Infamy |
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Mar 19, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| Fear on the Border |
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Mar 21, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| Ventriloquism Appalachian Style |
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Mar 22, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| Presence and Absence and Democratic Agency |
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Mar 23, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Alterity, Sensemaking and the Death of Innocents |
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Mar 24, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Note from Max Stephenson about Soundings |
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Mar 25, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Captain Fantastic meets Democratic Politics |
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Mar 25, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| The White House as Puzzle Palace of Demagoguery and Lies |
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Mar 27, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Fantasy, Phantasm and Pursuit of Power |
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Mar 29, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| The Puzzle of Malignant Social Fantasies |
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Mar 30, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Deception, Self-Deception and Self-Governance |
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Mar 30, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| Alterity, Sensemaking and Innocents II |
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Mar 31, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Argument by “Certain” Assertion: Today’s New Public Policy Forum? |
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Apr 1, 2012
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Soundings |
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| The Uses and Misuses of Rhetoric |
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Apr 6, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Unleashing the Power of Empathetic Imagination |
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Apr 7, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| A New Cyclone comes to Myanmar |
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Apr 8, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Revisiting the Foundations of Democratic Self-Governance |
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Apr 8, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| Qaddafi and Academic Freedom |
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Apr 10, 2011
|
Soundings |
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| Of Ignorance, Expertise, Demagoguery and Democracy |
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Apr 10, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| On Three ways of Looking at a Political Phenomenon |
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Apr 11, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| Institutionalizing ‘Doublethink’ and the Challenge of Democratic Deliberation |
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Apr 12, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| On Fear, Killing, Torture and Rationalization |
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Apr 13, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Artistry, Principle and the Paradox of Self-Governance |
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Apr 13, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| On Kindness and Democratic Self-Governance |
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Apr 14, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| How shall we Define Freedom? |
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Apr 15, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| "Abyssal Politics": Republican Party Style |
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Apr 18, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| Ramsey Clark and the Challenge of Morally Imaginative Leadership |
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Apr 19, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| Pondering Human Dignity, Democracy and Freedom |
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Apr 20, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Democratic Torpor? |
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Apr 21, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Leonard Cohen: A Villanelle for our Time |
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Apr 22, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| “Seeking What No Other Man has Found or can Find” |
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Apr 22, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| The Danger of Allowing the ‘Boughs to turn Brown’ |
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Apr 22, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| The Wayfaring Stranger |
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Apr 24, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| On Frame Ambiguity and Democratic Politics |
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Apr 25, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| The Politics of “Dispossession” |
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Apr 26, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| Fighting Poverty and Banning Books |
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Apr 27, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Pondering Death, Depravity and Decadent Pursuit of Power as Public Policy |
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Apr 27, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| “With Hatred and Malice toward those who Dare Differ with Me” |
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Apr 28, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Pondering the Nexus of Nature, Politics and Affection |
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Apr 29, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| In Memoriam: Wolfgang Natter, May 22, 1955-April 29, 2018 |
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May 2, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| Morality has left the Building |
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May 2, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| Political Agency, Personal Responsibility and our Nation’s Governance Crisis |
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May 3, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| Haiti and Cholera: An Ongoing Failure of Imagination and Responsibility |
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May 4, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| President Obama Revisits the “Gitmo” Nightmare |
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May 5, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Can a democratic electorate be held accountable? |
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May 6, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| A Reasoned Politics of Mosaic Possibility |
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May 6, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Heedless Policy Cruelty |
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May 8, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| Democratic Mobilization, Deliberation and Civic Health |
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May 9, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| A Disquieting Enervation of Democratic Possibility |
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May 11, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Another Turn of the Wheel |
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May 11, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| Governance as Moral And Ethical Bankruptcy |
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May 11, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| Gabrielle Giffords: Heralding a ‘Profile in Courage’ |
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May 12, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Senator Lugar meets the new GOP: The Nation comes the Cropper |
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May 13, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Reflections on Federalism, Democratic Responsibility and a Leaked Supreme Court Decision |
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May 16, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| The Importance and Privilege of a Mentoring Community |
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May 17, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| The GOP Descent into Nihilism |
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May 17, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| Is Democratic Moderation Sustainable? |
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May 18, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| Politics, Imposed Privation and Human Rights |
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May 18, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ or Weighing the Democratic Price of Partisan Mobilization at any Cost |
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May 19, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Learning from G.K. Chesterton: The Importance of Respect and Wonder |
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May 20, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| One Nation or a Country of Clans? |
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May 20, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Human Rationalization, Alterity and the Challenge of Moral Courage |
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May 21, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| Note from Max Stephenson |
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May 21, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| Homo Faber: The Triumph and Perils of Narcissistic Politics |
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May 22, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| Civic Engagement as Soulcraft |
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May 23, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| Reflections On Writing and Writing Well |
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May 23, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Reflecting on two of your Recent Commentaries |
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May 26, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| On the Impasse Over Active Learning |
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May 26, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Of False Analogies, Fabled Claims and Caution Flags |
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May 26, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| Pondering Political Brinksmanship and the Public Trust |
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May 28, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| The Danger of ‘Cumulative Radicalization’ |
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May 31, 2022
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Soundings |
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| Hélène Berr and the Dilemma of ‘Human Understanding’ |
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Jun 1, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| When Bad Theory Leads to Poor Policy |
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Jun 2, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Counting the Costs of Predatory Mobilization Politics |
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Jun 3, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Constitutional Self-Governance is Not Simply a Partisan Matter |
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May 23, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Pondering Kintsugi and Community Change in Appalachia |
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Jun 4, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| The Danger Within |
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Jun 5, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| Privatism and Relentless Attacks on Democratic Values and Human Rights |
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Jun 5, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| Liberal Learning meets the Politics of Fear and Neo-liberalism |
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Jun 7, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| On the Nexus of ‘Human Understanding’ and Freedom |
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Jun 8, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Harbingers of A Riven Nation |
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Jun 8, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| On Writing about Democratic Politics |
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Jun 9, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| The Politics of ‘Back to the Future’ Economics |
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Jun 10, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Reflections on "Lectures on Leadership" |
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Jun 13, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| Synodality and the Crisis of Democratic Politics |
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Jun 13, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| Democratic Truisms |
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Jun 15, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Freedom, Security and the Lessons of History |
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Jun 16, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| What Ails Public Higher Education? |
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Jun 17, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Note from Max Stephenson |
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Jun 17, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Moral Ambiguity, Moral Courage and Democratic Politics |
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Jun 19, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| A Remediable Choice or Continued Democratic Decline? |
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Jun 19, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| Countering Democratic Usurpation |
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Jun 19, 2023
|
Soundings |
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| The Once and Future Perils of Popular Rule |
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Jun 21, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| “Democracy” comes to Myanmar: Discrimination, Mass Imprisonment and Death |
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Jun 22, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| ‘Truth is the Oxygen in the Air of Democracy’ (1) |
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Jun 22, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| On Federalism and the Arizona Voter Identification Case |
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Jun 23, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Reflections on a Governance Failure |
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Jun 24, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| The Policy Paradox Implicit in Defining Freedom as Agency |
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Jun 26, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Banning Books and Pondering Democratic Possibility |
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Jun 27, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| Musings on Fear and Governance |
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Jun 28, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| The “Strange Sap” of Unreality and Intolerance |
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Jun 28, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| On Eric Cantor’s Defeat |
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Jun 29, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| Soundings July 2: An “Infestation” of Lies [1] |
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Jul 2, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| The Struggle to Control America’s Identity |
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Jul 5, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| Contentions that Pass For Conversation |
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Jul 6, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| Counting the Costs of Policy-making by Ideological Abstraction |
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Jul 7, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Reaping a Whirlwind of Hate |
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Jul 11, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| A Pope’s Plea for the Commons, Democratic Governance and Social Justice |
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Jul 12, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| Charting the Shadows of Feigned Outrage |
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Jul 12, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| Egypt and the Enduring Challenge of Democracy’s Pre-conditions |
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Jul 14, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| The Human Cost of a Politics of Lies |
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Jul 15, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Note from Max Stephenson about Soundings. |
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Jul 16, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| Pondering the "Problem of the Antecedent Condition" |
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Jul 18, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| A Terrible Inevitability? |
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Jul 18, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| The Shared Roots of Genocide and Systematic Persecution |
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Jul 19, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| On Rhetoric, Leadership and Democratic Community |
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Jul 20, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| Pondering an Invidious Legislative Action |
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Jul 21, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| “Abandoning the Poor” as a Political and Social Strategy? |
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Jul 22, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| A Shared Quest for All or a Single Imposed ‘Patrimony’? |
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Jul 25, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| A Looming American Choice: Self-Determination as Freedom or Tyranny? |
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Jul 26, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| Senator Rand Paul and the Illusory Politics of the “Lost Cause” |
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Jul 28, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| The Implications of the Political Economy of Olympic Ideals |
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Jul 29, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Trump’s Dangerous Game |
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Jul 29, 2019
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Soundings |
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| A Clear and Present Danger |
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Jul 30, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Prophetic Imagination and the Current American Governance Crisis |
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Jul 30, 2018
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Soundings |
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| A Portrait of a Cruel Imaginary and a Sketch of an Alternative |
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Aug 2, 2015
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Soundings |
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| On “Tolerance” and Preserving Democratic Possibility |
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Aug 3, 2014
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Soundings |
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| On Rhetoric, Posturing and the Politics of Hate |
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Aug 3, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Soundings: The Politics of Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis |
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Aug 4, 2011
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Soundings |
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| Say it Loud and Blame Government: Today’s Mobilization Politics |
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Aug 4, 2013
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Soundings |
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| “Debating the ‘Size’ of Government or Attacking Governance Itself?” |
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Aug 7, 2012
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Soundings |
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| “The Canny and Careful Reconstruction of Barbarism”* |
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Aug 9, 2021
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Soundings |
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| ‘Creative Destruction’ or Neo-Liberal Cost Shifting? |
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Aug 10, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Democratic Governance as Fear-filled Dissembling |
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Aug 11, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Musings on Art, Artistry and Aesthetic Imagination |
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Aug 12, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Eroding Human Rights and the Nation’s Collective Moral Imagination |
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Aug 12, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Rationalizing Trump: A Strained and Strange Mixture of Fantasy and Fear |
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Aug 13, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Fear and Bigotry: Democracy’s Achilles Heel? |
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Aug 14, 2016
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Soundings |
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| “Voices from the Appalachian Coalfields” |
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Aug 14, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Rediscovering the Democratic and Economic Possibility Inherent in Imagination |
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Aug 16, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Political Versus Economic Sovereignty |
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Aug 17, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Charting a Path from ‘Quasi-Democratic Autocracy’ to Democratic Self-Governance |
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Aug 17, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Blaming the Poor |
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Aug 18, 2013
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Soundings |
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| When a President Embraces, and Celebrates Hate |
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Aug 18, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Mitt Romney’s Ethical Morass |
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Aug 19, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Staying the Course in the Quest for Social Justice |
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Aug 22, 2022
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Soundings |
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| Pondering an Apology for Social and Political Madness |
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Aug 23, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Of Sea Turtles, Piping Plovers and Freedom |
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Aug 24, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Discounting the Future |
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Aug 25, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Neo-Liberalism and the Democratic Imperative of Empathetic Imagination |
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Aug 26, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Trump’s Siren Song of Hate |
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Aug 26, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Freedom for all: Principle on a Precipice |
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Aug 27, 2017
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Soundings |
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| A Calculated Attack on Human Rights and Dignity |
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Aug 27, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Reaping a Whirlwind: Delegitimating Self-Governance |
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Aug 29, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Considering some Common Assumptions concerning U.S. Education |
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Aug 31, 2014
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Soundings |
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| ‘Ascription by Assumption’ and Democratic Politics |
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Aug 31, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Mobilization Politics, Democracy and the Human Quest for Order |
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Aug 31, 2020
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Soundings |
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| A Long-lived Political Conversation: Should Democracy or Capitalism Govern? |
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Sep 1, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Fear Mongering is Always Bad Policy |
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Sep 3, 2012
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Soundings |
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| The Perils of False Equivalence for Human Freedom |
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Sep 5, 2022
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Soundings |
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| Democracy and the Drums of War |
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Sep 7, 2014
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Soundings |
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| The Cruel Potential always present in Popular Sovereignty |
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Sep 8, 2013
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Soundings |
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| The GOP, “States’ Rights” and Self-Governance |
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Sep 9, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Liberalism and the Challenge of Socially Sanctioned Cruelty |
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Sep 9, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Rationalizing Away the Imperative of Deliberative Self-Governance |
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Sep 10, 2017
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Soundings |
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| A Mass-Delusion Event |
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Sep 10, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Hope and Possibility Amidst Human Depravity |
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Sep 11, 2023
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Soundings |
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| Pondering Power and Injustice in Democratic Politics |
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Sep 12, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Trumpism: The Politics of Fear and Fecklessness |
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Sep 13, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Pondering the Links between Culture, Freedom and Democracy |
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Sep 14, 2014
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Soundings |
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| ‘The Enemy Within’ |
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Sep 14, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Who can right the Ship of State? |
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Sep 15, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Reflections on Peacebuilding |
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Sep 16, 2012
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Soundings |
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| A Descent into Popular Madness and a Central Truth of Self-Governance |
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Sep 19, 2022
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Soundings |
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| Taking Stock and Giving Thanks After Nearly 12 Years |
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Sep 20, 2021
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Soundings |
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| The President and the Hue and Cry for War |
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Sep 21, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Blaming the Victim II |
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Sep 22, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Musings on “Curating Consciousness” |
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Sep 23, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Pseudotransformational Leadership in Action |
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Sep 23, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Attacking Human Rights and Accountability |
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Sep 24, 2018
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Soundings |
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| A Toxic Brew of Media Polarization, Extremism and Untruthful Advocacy |
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Sep 24, 2017
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Soundings |
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| "Good Morning, Mr. Indignation" |
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Sep 25, 2023
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Soundings |
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| “Post-Truth” Politics, Trump and Coal Country |
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Sep 26, 2016
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Soundings |
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| ‘Presence’ and Democratic Leadership |
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Sep 28, 2014
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Soundings |
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| On Perfidy, Penury and the Danger of Depravity |
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Sep 28, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Rhetoric, Justice and the Pursuit of Power |
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Sep 28, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Arts and the Civil Rights Movement: Life Force of a Fight for Justice |
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Sep 29, 2013
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Soundings |
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| “Policy-makers, Policy-making and the ‘American Dream’” |
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Sep 30, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Myth, Symbol and Political Mobilization |
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Oct 5, 2011
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Soundings |
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| Musings on “Takers” and Civic Identity |
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Oct 5, 2014
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Soundings |
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| The GOP Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
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Oct 6, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Voting Access Restrictions: Democracy in Choppy Waters |
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Oct 7, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Evangelicals, Demographic and Economic Change and Injustice |
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Oct 7, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Chilling Lessons from the Vietnam War Resonate Today |
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Oct 8, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Aboard a ‘Ship of Fools’ Awash with Hate |
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Oct 8, 2018
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Soundings |
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| Are we witnessing the end of Shame in American Political Discourse? |
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Oct 9, 2011
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Soundings |
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| Of Racist and Red Baiting Tropes and Misanthropes |
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Oct 9, 2023
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Soundings |
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| In Search of Democratic Deliberation |
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Oct 10, 2016
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Soundings |
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| On Imagination, Trust and Democratic Governance |
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Oct 11, 2015
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Soundings |
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| On Death and Democratic Imagination |
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Oct 12, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Treacherous Inequality and ‘Appalachian Fall’ |
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Oct 10, 2020
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Soundings |
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| A Captivity of Consciousness |
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Oct 13, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Human Dignity and Simple Acts of Joy |
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Oct 14, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Of Damning Facts and Destructive Fantasies |
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Oct 17, 2022
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Soundings |
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| Imagination, Individual Will, Difference and Democratic Politics |
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Oct 18, 2021
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Soundings |
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| On Moral Courage, Social Norms and Self Governance |
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Oct 19, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Descent into Demagoguery |
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Oct 20, 2013
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Soundings |
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| ‘Framing’ Democratic Deliberation |
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Oct 21, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Noise, Quiet and Democratic Deliberation |
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Oct 21, 2019
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Soundings |
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| Reflections on Capacity Building and Community Change |
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Oct 22, 2017
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Soundings |
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| The Power of Language in Human Society |
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Oct 22, 2018
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Soundings |
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| A Demagogue Attacks American Governance |
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Oct 23, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Peacebuilding as Disciplined Imagination and Maturity |
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Oct 24, 2010
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Soundings |
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| A Flâneur Reflects on the Simmering Crisis in American Politics |
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Oct 25, 2015
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Soundings |
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| A Tale of Two Interpretations |
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Oct 26, 2010
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Soundings |
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| Reflections on Democratic Leadership and Popular Exploitation |
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Oct 26, 2014
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Soundings |
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| ‘Assumptive Worlds’ and American Democracy’s Greatest Test |
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Oct 26, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Piercing the Veil |
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Oct 27, 2013
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Soundings |
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| “Is there any ‘there,’ there? How would we know?” |
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Oct 28, 2012
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Soundings |
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| On 'Mending Wall,' in Politics and Otherwise |
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Jan 10, 2022
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Soundings |
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| Democrats, Plutocrats and Our Nation’s Public Policy Course |
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Nov 2, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Policy Judgments and the Commons |
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Nov 3, 2013
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Soundings |
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| Radical with a Cause |
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Nov 4, 2010
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Soundings |
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| Portrait of a Statesman: Feeding on Dreams |
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Nov 4, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Only Our Nation’s Citizens Can Address its Deepening Governance Crisis |
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Nov 5, 2018
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Soundings |
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| On Human Cruelty and Alterity |
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Nov 6, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Electoral Carnage, American Style |
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Nov 7, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Tearing at the Sinews of Democratic Legitimacy |
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Nov 7, 2022
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Soundings |
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| Confronting Critical Choices Concerning Human Rights and Torture |
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Nov 9, 2014
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Soundings |
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| Outrageous Rhetoric, Political Alienation and Democratic Deliberation |
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Nov 9, 2015
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Soundings |
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| Reflections on a Historic National Election |
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Nov 9, 2020
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Soundings |
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| Defining the University Down |
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Nov 10, 2013
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Soundings |
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| On American Unity and Individualism |
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Nov 11, 2012
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Soundings |
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| Principled Anarchy or a Nation losing its Way? |
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Nov 14, 2011
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Soundings |
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| Leonard Cohen: A Villanelle for our Time |
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Nov 14, 2016
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Soundings |
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| “Campaign Strategy,” Lies and the Contest for America’s Soul |
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Nov 15, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Making Sense of the Recent Election |
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Nov 16, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| A Nest of Paradoxes |
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Nov 16, 2016
|
Soundings |
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| Governance by Abstract Assumption |
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Nov 17, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Mr. Romney’s Profound Misapprehension |
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Nov 18, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Decolonizing Social Imagination |
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Nov 18, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Reflections on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at Thanksgiving |
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Nov 19, 2017
|
Soundings |
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| Note from Max Stephenson about Soundings |
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Nov 19, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| Emptying the Soul of the Nation One Person at a Time |
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Nov 23, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| A New and Sad Chapter for Torture in the United States? |
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Nov 25, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Journalists Must Understand Nihilism and Democracy are Not Morally Equivalent |
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Nov 29, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Anne Frank’s Legacy and the Politics of Fear and Intolerance |
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Nov 30, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| The Humanities in Peril |
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Dec 1, 2013
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Soundings |
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| The Imperative Need to Rebalance a Political Economy in Crisis |
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Dec 2, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Recalling the Lessons of the Voyage of the MS St. Louis |
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Dec 3, 2018
|
Soundings |
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| Counting the Costs of Partyism |
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Dec 3, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Fear and the Moral Imagination: The Oil and Water of Democratic Self-Governance |
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Dec 4, 2017
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Soundings |
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| Sarah Palin and Negative and Positive Liberty |
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Dec 5, 2010
|
Soundings |
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| Defining Democratic Legitimacy Down |
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Dec 5, 2016
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Soundings |
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| Charting the Wellsprings of a Democratic Crisis |
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Dec 6, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| A Tipping Point in American Politics |
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Dec 7, 2015
|
Soundings |
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| “Decency, Democracy and ‘Big Lies’” |
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Dec 7, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| On Three Discomfiting Political Trends |
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Dec 8, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| Imagined Slights and Disability Rights |
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Dec 9, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| Acknowledging the Lessons of History |
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Dec 14, 2014
|
Soundings |
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| On Magnanimity, Leadership and Freedom |
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Dec 15, 2013
|
Soundings |
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| In Praise of Critical Reflection |
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Dec 16, 2012
|
Soundings |
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| A Clear and Present Danger |
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Dec 16, 2019
|
Soundings |
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| Reflections on A Continuing Pall |
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Dec 19, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| “An Indelible Stain” (1) |
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Dec 21, 2020
|
Soundings |
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| Rhetorical "Opportunity" Meets Reality |
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Dec 30, 2011
|
Soundings |
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| Of Fantasies and Imagined Superheroes |
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Jan 24, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| On Hope, Reverence and Democratic Possibility |
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Apr 17, 2023
|
Soundings |
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| On Journalism, Empirical Reality and Ethical Claim |
|
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Nov 28, 2022
|
Soundings |
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| Practicing Cruelty in the Quest for Power |
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Sep 9, 2021
|
Soundings |
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| The “Banality of Evil” and the Evanescence of Democratic Governance |
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Jun 1, 2021
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Soundings |
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| Two Writers Illuminate the Nation’s Governance Crisis |
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Nov 1, 2021
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Soundings |
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