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Toward Democracy Book Club, Entry 2: The Introduction

Just before Christmas, I promised a virtual book club on James Kloppenberg’s Toward Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2016). I’m here now to make good on that promise. Before I dive into the rest of my notes on the Introduction, I want to offer a few prefatory remarks on our club. Read more

Tim Lacy

December 22, 2016

Toward Democracy Book Club: Installment 1

I’ll be spending the next few months on a very close reading of James Kloppenberg’s Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (OUP, 2016). Because it’s Read more

Tim Lacy

January 14, 2016

Beyond Scientific Ignorance: Seeking the Roots of Democratized Anti-Knowledge

A new article online pharmacy aricept for sale with best prices today in the USA on Stanford’s prominent historian of science, Robert N. Proctor, made the rounds last week. The Read more

Andrew Seal

March 9, 2015

Thomas Carlyle, Walt Whitman, and the Foes of Democracy

It is particularly inappropriate to be uncharitable to that most charitable American, Walt Whitman, and yet I am going to be uncharitable here and commit a sin of selective quotation. Read more

Andrew Seal

November 7, 2014

The Growth of American Thought

Books as large as Merle Curti’s 1943 The Growth of American Thought (over three pounds) are typically referred to either as a monument (honorific) or a brick (pejorative). Although monuments Read more

Tim Lacy

March 20, 2014

A Great Books Sensibility, Part I: Theory

In my prior work, the focus on Mortimer J. Adler and his community of discourse often elbowed out thoughts on how the great books idea “worked” in readers. The former Read more

Tim Lacy

August 5, 2013

Using Rock To Think—And Dream, Part 2

buy zetia online zetia online no prescription In my first post on Michael Kramer’s Republic of Rock I ruminated on the book’s argument and Introduction. I introduced his key themes Read more

Toward Democracy Book Club, Entry 2: The Introduction

Toward Democracy Book Club: Installment 1

Beyond Scientific Ignorance: Seeking the Roots of Democratized Anti-Knowledge

Thomas Carlyle, Walt Whitman, and the Foes of Democracy

The Growth of American Thought

A Great Books Sensibility, Part I: Theory

Using Rock To Think—And Dream, Part 2