The Expressive Antidote to the Trumpist Virus
How Erving Goffman helps us understand the hidden power of Biden, Sanders, and the Democratic governors In order to defend and extend democracy in America in the... Read more.
Gray is Beautiful, Part 3
Gray is Beautiful, Part 3 How do we balance the agendas of progressive and moderate voters? This is the final part of a three-part post (part 1 and part... Read more.
Gray is Beautiful, Part 2
On the Social Condition and Fractured Society in Donald Trump’s America This is the second part of a three-part post (part 1 and part 3 are linked... Read more.
Gray is Beautiful, Part 1
On the Social Condition and Fractured Society in Donald Trump’s America Between the stark blacks and whites of political and cultural conflicts, there is a gray... Read more.
The Democratic Power of Inertia in Social Life
And its limits in fractured society I have long been impressed by the positive power of inertia in social life. But in the fractured society we now live in, I worry... Read more.
Why I Don’t Like the Leading Democratic Candidates to be President of the United States
And why I would support anyone of them Soon after Donald Trump’s election, in an essay entitled “On Trump and Trumpism,” I confessed:... Read more.
Democrats of the World, Unite!
A Report on the First International Meeting of Democracy Seminar 2.0 With authoritarians dominating worldwide – Trump, Putin, Erdogan, Orban, and Kaczynski,... Read more.
Open Letter: We Stand with the Kurdish People of Syria!
From members of Democracy Seminar 2.0: We are writing as scholars and citizens of the world to express our concern for the Kurdish people of Syria, whose fate has... Read more.
For Democracy / Against Cynicism
On Trump, McConnell, Pelosi and Company This essay was originally posted on July 31 2019. “I believe the single most pressing challenge facing American society... Read more.
Defeating the Prince of the Darkness of Our Times
On the 2020 Election / Against Ideology This essay, the third in a series against ideology (for earlier ones see here and here), considers the contest... Read more.