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socially available free time to be recognized as a value, we must develop democratic institutional forms of acknowledging one another as social individuals who are ends in ourselves. These institutional forms of democratic life must enable us both to discuss collectively what needs to be done in our community and to engage individually the question
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
It is instructive to see how the party that one might have thought was simply a transitory instrument for the emancipation of the working and popular classes thus becomes a fetish.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
Core to alleviating the social and economic problems in the 2030s is utilizing the population and re-creating upward mobility. The university is at the heart of both the problem and the solution. It also becomes the center of a political battle.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The university is the battleground of the crisis of the 2020s because it is the system that fuels the broad social bureaucracy.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The lasting product of the New Deal era was not its humanism or idealism, but a new consciousness that believed primarily in domination and the necessity for
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
Howard Marks • Howard Marks Memo - The Winds of Change
one of the powerful aspects of American society is that those who are economically desperate and socially displaced get to vote, and those who will be falling into the abyss are not a small marginal class but a large, multiracial, multiethnic class containing equal numbers of women and men. Their actions are inevitable and the results obvious. The
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Because the majority of Americans are not passionate about ideologies, it means that candidates from both parties are selected by a minority who is passionate. Because those who accept the predominant ideology are the ones voting, the candidates are increasingly being selected from the fringe. Particularly in congressional elections, the dedicated
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