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Social Analysis, for example, offers courses in economics, linguistics, medical history, political science, and archaeology, just to name a few. Moral Reasoning offers courses in contemporary ethical theory, Confucius, existentialism, justice, legal theory, and democracy??again, to name just a few. If at least one of the offerings in each of these two areas doesn’t grab your attention, what will...
Wisse insists that Israel deserves praise for its relative (by Middle Eastern standards) democracy??but surely relative democracy divorced from ethical standards is not enough. Indeed, Wisse insists that the Jews are special because they ‘try to live up to the measure of God,’ not the measure of man. Perhaps God doesn’t believe in human rights; perhaps he smiles to see one-fifth of Israel’s population literally caged in the world’s largest concentration camp; perhaps he smiles with Wisse to see Israel engage...
...Arthur Rowse’s latest book, “Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know.” Rowse, according to Jensen, bemoans the increasingly self-interested behavior of American media, which he sees as paradigmatic of the replacement of “citizen democracy?? by “corporate democracy.” Nonetheless, Rowse’s proposed societal reforms all center on the media itself. “When it comes to running the country,” Jensen quotes him as saying, “there?...
...gathered peacefully to protest city and township corruption. Then, on Wednesday, a Beijing factory worker named Chi Shouzhu was arrested as a pro-democracy “counter-revolutionary.” He will be imprisoned not for inciting pro-democracy demonstrations—not even for promoting democracy??but for printing out information from a pro-democracy website on a friend’s computer...