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Talk of the Tube: How To Get Teledemocracy Right
If we are realistic and appropriately modest, television can enhance democratic deliberation.
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Passion, Memory, and Politics, 1992
F rom its founding nearly three years ago, The American Prospect has sought to help reconstruct a plausible and persuasive liberalism. This issue’s cluster of articles concerned with a public investment strategy for economic growth exemplifies that purpose: substantive, detailed thinking about how to solve the nation’s problems, rather than symbolic gestures. Yet, as this […]
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Domestic Urges, Foreign Obsessions
Constructive engagement with the post-Cold War world requires both a stronger America and clearer global goals. Domestic reconstruction must be a priority—but beware isolationism.
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From Crisis to Working Majority
Reports of the death of the Democrats are greatly exaggerated. Three new books, despite their author’s pessimism, suggest how to reconstruct the party’s middle-class foundations.
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The Remedy is More Speech
Slurs against groups may be painful, but suppressing speech is not the answer.
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Ideas, Yes; Assaults, No
The First Amendment protects the exchange of ideas, not verbal assaults.
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The Limits of Indignation
Three widely discussed works are helping to heat up the debate about race again. But the limits of a politics of racial conscience should be all too apparent.
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Civility and Its Discontents
You are a college president facing a student accused of scrawling racial epithets on campus. Should you expel him?