Sentences with phrase «democratic project»

Moreover, Berlin's essay defended the liberal democratic project in such a way as to reinforce the liberal anti-Communist consensus that historians still associate with men such as President Harry Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and Senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson.

As I have navigated my discontent and skepticism of the modern American democratic project, Samuel Adams has been a faithful guide.

The American democratic project is endangered by this growing separation, which Murray demonstrates both statistically and anecdotally.

Novak's discussion of morality is the most sustained and significant theme of his book, and it is, I believe, the most relevant to the democratic project presently underway around the globe.

One need not agree with NicholasWolterstorff's politics — for instance, his position on the Palestinian - Israeli conflict - to welcome his commitment to the liberal - democratic project that makes possible the engagement of disagreements, including disagreements over the merits of the liberal - democratic project.

The key element, absolutely essential to the democratic project, is that of a higher sovereignty that can not be equated with and therefore must necessarily limit the sovereignty of the state.

Indeed, as forty years ago Father John Courtney Murray speculated might happen, Catholicism may now be the chief moral legitimator of a democratic project to which a large part of Protestantism» especially in its liberal American form» often seems indifferent.

So what will liberation theologians have to contribute to the democratic project?

While leading a week - long seminar on deep secularization and its effects in Europe (and on the democratic project throughout the world), I met younger Israeli scholars, deeply immersed in their Judaism and keen students of political philosophy, who were trying to articulate a Jewish theological rationale for human rights, democracy, the rule of law, and so forth.

This euphoria went far beyond the undeniable satisfaction of seeing a great evil overcome, and more than one other wise sober - minded observer was heard to propose that the democratic project — the great carrier of the modern quest for freedom — was now inevitably and irreversibly triumphant.

He is unequivocal in his condemnation of Labour and of the failure of the entire social - democratic project.

«Indeed, let it be known that the PDP warned that this script being played out by Chief Oyegun and his ilk in the APC clearly portends danger to our democratic project and our national stability.»

Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of social life.

Taken together, these pleasures explain why pleasure reading promotes cognitive progress and social possibility, and even a kind of wisdom and wholeness, and, in a larger sense, the democratic project.

In the centuries since, the courts have regularly affirmed the special status of public schools as a cornerstone of the American democratic project.

Beckwith and Roelstraete's show made clear that the postwar failures of the democratic project in much of the west meant that there could be no «outside of politics», no universal subject or viewership.