Posts tagged America

The Pure Impurity of Democratic Politics

There is a specter haunting the democracies of the 21st century – the specter of a democracy worthy of the name.

Essays and Reviews, Literature, Politics & HistoryDaniel Erickson February 26, 2018Ranciere, Democracy, America, American Democracy, Tyranny, Philosophy, United States, Freedom

Why a Coronation For Bush?

When England was "christianized" they rejected the Anglo-Saxon epic poetry that had been all the rage because it was "heroic" and heroic is antithetical to the Christian theology. How, then, did America, founded by the errant Protestant Christians, become a land of Pick-Yourself-Up-By-The-Bootstraps individualism and heroism?

Chavisa WoodsSeptember 28, 2006America, Katherine Arnoldi, Politics, Religion, Tribes