DEMOCRACY

January 15-20, 1989 Tocqueville on "voluntary associations"
Sunday, October 20, 1996 Tocqueville on mores

February 3, 1989 Durkheim & Weber on moral autonomy

Sunday, March 30, 1997 Public/Private: The Limitations of a Grand Dichotomy (1997)

Monday, May 28, 2001 Bushism vs. republican virtue

Monday, April 1, 2002 Michael Walzer, "Can There Be a Decent Left?" (Dissent)

Sunday, December 26, 2004 Stephen Zunes - Why western progressives should support Ukrainian democracy

Monday, January 24, 2005 John Powers - "A Vision of Our Own" (LA Weekly)

Saturday, April 9, 2005 Remember Afghanistan? (Normblog)

Saturday, September 03, 2005 Islamism and Democracy (Harry's Place & Bassam Tibi)

Monday, September 26, 2005 Montesquieu in Damascus
Thursday, September 29, 2005 Rousseau in Massachusetts
Monday, October 31, 2005 Tocqueville in Alabama
Monday, May 1, 2006 Marx in China (2006)

Monday, December 12, 2005 Ayaan Hirsi Ali & the cause of Enlightenment (Timothy Garton Ash)
Monday, December 12, 2005 Free Speech - Marc Cooper vs. Nathan Newman

Friday, February 17, 2006 The Founding Fathers & Blasphemy

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 Intellectuals' manifesto: A global struggle of democrats vs. theocrats
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 Manifesto: Facing the new totalitarianism
Friday, March 31, 2006 Workers and citizens - Some dilemmas of immigration (Paul Krugman)

Sunday, April 16, 2006 How the Italian election was decided in Canada
Friday, April 21, 2006 The Euston Manifesto: For a Renewal of Progressive Politics
Sunday, April 23, 2006 Marc Cooper & Will Hutton endorse the Euston Manifesto
Monday, April 24, 2006 Maurice Glasman on the Darfur atrocity, warped priorities, and the "respect" scam
Thursday, April 27, 2006 In Defence of the Euston Manifesto (Shalom Lappin)

Monday, May 8, 2006 Chalmers Johnson - Exporting the American Model
Thursday, May 11, 2006 Political Theory Pop Quiz (Andrew Sullivan)
Saturday, May 13, 2006 John McCain on political morality, patriotism, and reconciliation
Monday, May 15, 2006 Ayaan Hirsi Ali driven out of the Netherlands

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Mark Mazower on fascism - An exchange with Brad DeLong
Friday, June 9, 2006 Teddy Roosevelt & Adam Smith on inheritance taxes (Susan Dunn & Sam Fleischacker)
Sunday, June 18, 2006 Occidentalism and "Anti-Imperialism" (Marko Attila Hoare & Ian Buruma)

Saturday, July 1, 2006 "HUGE News" | Rule of Law - 5, Bush/Cheney - 3
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 "Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle" (Trotsky)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Durkheim in Israel - war & moral integration

Saturday, August 5, 2006 Henry Farrell's correct views on war, political responsibility, & Iraq

Sunday, September 10, 2006 Fred Halliday - "The Left and Jihad" (openDemocracy)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Euston USA - "American Liberalism and the Euston Manifesto"

Thursday, October 12, 2006 Jefferson, Madison, & Burke on the US Constitution
Thursday, October 12, 2006 Genocide & free speech in Turkey & France (via Ann Althouse, Orhan Pamuk, & Norman Geras)

Friday, November 10, 2006 Ellen Willis, democratic socialist and anti-anti-Zionist, 1941-2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 A Manifesto for American Liberalism - Todd Gitlin & Bruce Ackerman
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Religion & republicanism in American political culture (George Will & Alexis de Tocqueville)

Thursday, December 7, 2006 Twilight of the patriarchs? - Pinochet & the Castros (Marc Cooper)
Saturday, December 9, 2006 Irwin Cotler defends Salah Choudhury (Statement to the Canadian Parliament)
Saturday, December 9, 2006 Irwin Cotler Joins Shoaib Choudhury's Defence (Terry Glavin)
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Irwin Cotler: "Courageous Bangladeshi journalist" Salah Choudhury deserves our support (Montreal Gazette)

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 "True heroics" in the cause of freedom (Montreal Suburban)
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 George Washington's Letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)