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Starting in the 1960s, the social and legal institutions of America were remade to try to eliminate unfair choices by people in positions of responsibility. The new legal structures reflected a deep distrust of human authority in even its more benign forms—a teacher’s authority in the classroom, or a manager’s judgments about who’s doing the job,
... See morePhilip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
I wrote a whole article on this and how fundamental it is for those institutions that convene spaces... See more
Management as a locust plague
Rushworth Kidder, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics and author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices,
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.