Sentences with phrase «wrote about democracy»

Here's what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: ``... do you notice how tender they make the citizen's soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it?

Danielle Allen, a professor of education and government at Harvard University and the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, writes about democracy, citizenship, and what it means to sustain an egalitarian society.

Not exact matches

Calling Facebook a «a sewer of misinformation,» Joshua Benton of Harvard's Nieman Lab wrote in a post published Wednesday, «Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

You can also tell a tween or teen that knowing how to read, write and think critically about issues is important in our democracy.

Im writing about india and south africas transition to democracy, i came to the conclusion that India was better of for a number of reasons.

She writes about European Democracy and global Europe, has taught at renowned universities in Europe and the US and has 20 years experience.Her new book «Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss!

Professor Cheeseman also writes a regular column for the Sunday Nation, East Africa's most widely read newspaper, and is the founder of Democracy in Africa, a website dedicated to fostering an online community of people that are interested in, and care about, the state of democracy iDemocracy in Africa, a website dedicated to fostering an online community of people that are interested in, and care about, the state of democracy idemocracy in Africa.

But a new democracy settlement, including a written constitution, Lords reform and a clean break on party funding must show that the message about the need for change has got through.

As John McCormick writes «republicanism, unless reconstructed almost beyond the point of recognition, can only reinforce what is worst about contemporary liberal democracy: the free hand that socioeconomic and political elites enjoy at the expense of the general populace.»

As I am writing for a blog, I do not intend to jump into academic descriptions about why it is important to have independent media to build democracy in a country.

The Autumn 2010 edition of Renewal — a journal of social democracy — sees the Chair of the Social Liberal Forum David Hall - Matthews writing about the formation of the Coalition government from a Lib Dem perspective.

In 1995, he wrote «Reinventing Democracy» [2] and in November 2002 he published The Last Prime Minister: Being Honest About the UK Presidency, [2] claiming that the UK effectively had a presidency.

Over on the Unlock Democracy website you will find all the information you need, including information about the Act itself, reasons why councils should «opt - in» and a sample letter (although we encourage you to write to them in your own words as it will be more effective).

And, since the UK is a democracy, I also wrote it in the context of the UK electorate being able to bring about voting reform soon after the next general election.

«There is an incredible yearning in this country and around the world for using technology to provide more transparency about our democracies,» wrote Ed Summers, the software developer behind the US version, in his personal blog.

The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black A lot of nonsense has been written about the role of Putin's Russia in subverting «our democracy.»

George Lucas has said he wrote it as a Nixon - era parable for the Vietnam War, about how democracies turn into dictatorships.

«Here's a story that talks about American history and the ideals of American democracy... in a vernacular that speaks to young people, written by a product of New York public education,» Rodin told the New York Times.

Tamim Ansary writes and lectures about Afghanistan, Islamic history, democracy, schooling and learning, fiction and the writing process, and other issues and directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop.

In his books School and Society and Democracy and Education, Dewey wrote about habits of democratic practice, beyond governance, that contribute to one's ability to participate responsibly in society.

For example, if the topic of your writing is democracy, you may write the essay about modern democracy in the United States of America, or research the main principles of Athenian classic democracy.

As I wrote at the time, with all the graphics and lists and other content attending the report release, «Somehow the panel failed to fit in a single graph like this one from the International Energy Agency showing how utterly inconsequential energy research is in advanced democracies (the O.E.C.D.) compared to budgets for science on other things we care about»:

Pepperdine University law professor Derek T. Muller takes his blog's name from a speech given during the Federal Convention of 1787, and he writes about how our democracy is reflected in election law, legal education, the U.S. Supreme Court and other organs of government.

She is also a researcher and wrote a thesis n 1985 about the transformation of democracy within the Swedish labour movement after having worked with study circles in an iron area where the working places were shut down.