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4 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘democracy’
Thinking Out Loud: Democracy and its Vilification Thu 29 Dec 2011 | 0 Comments
Three things recently that caught my attention: First, Family Guy writer Patrick Meighan’s account of his arrest at Occupy LA on 30 November, outlining the tactics employed by police to break up the peaceful protest. Though he backtracks a little...
Cruel... but Usual Tue 01 Mar 2005
Gary Younge’s thoughtful commentary in today’s Guardian takes Britain’s foreign policy to task, comparing the abuses at Camp Breadbasket — Britain’s Abu Ghraib — with the British Empire’s long history of colonial oppression, highlighting the refusal of the establishment to...
The War on Words Wed 10 Nov 2004
Philip Pullman writes in last weekend's Guardian Review on the fate of literature as democratic activity in an increasingly didactic, theocratic world: The democracy of reading exists in the to-and-fro between reader and text, when each is free to engage...
Obligatory Election Response Wed 03 Nov 2004 | 3 Comments
Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial rock till you began reading this sentence, then you’ll know by now that the Republicans have won the US presidential election. I’m disappointed, certainly. But I’m not surprised. Why? Because you have to...
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