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Common Counsel

Posted on 24. November 2014 by admin

The following excerpt argues why we should work together to determine policy; that one viewpoint is not enough, and the very definition of democracy is working as a group to bring the understanding, needs, and solutions of many perspectives into … Continue reading →

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Truth in Politics

Posted on 23. November 2014 by admin

What is missing in politics? Political debate and discussion among the body politic, both in communities and in Congress. We don’t have a parliament, and the town meeting is almost gone. Instead, we’ve got a manufactured narrative from the parties. … Continue reading →

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Flower Power

Posted on 22. November 2014 by admin

Nowhere else in the book The New Freedom is Woodrow Wilson as lyrical or poetic as in this chapter, paraphrased below. Here, he describes the kind of power that rises from the soil, the roots, to produce the flower. “Today, … Continue reading →

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Insulting Women

Posted on 21. November 2014 by admin

I’m struck with Woodrow Wilson’s framing of the difference between the classes in this essay. First, he insults the rich kids at a college where he’s speaking, then he insults everybody else by calling them “common.” But what’s even worse … Continue reading →

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Out of the Unknown, that Great Voiceless Multitude

Posted on 20. November 2014 by admin

Where Woodrow Wilson says below “we have got to organize a government whose sympathies…” he makes me think of what I tried to do with Writeindependent.org. “A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file. … Continue reading →

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Freedom Not Thralldom

Posted on 19. November 2014 by admin

Shall we submit to a monopolistic culture, to an authoritarian government that rules by strong-arming the public into submission? Woodrow Wilson says we shall not, and yet, what is being done? He falls short on his call to action. It … Continue reading →

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One Hundred Years Ago

Posted on 18. November 2014 by admin

Woodrow Wilson explains the problem with voting and money in politics from a hundred years ago. “All over the Union people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs. I live in one of … Continue reading →

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Who Runs Our Government?

Posted on 17. November 2014 by admin

Woodrow Wilson describes the troubling association between government and business. “One of the most alarming phenomena of the time, … one of the most significant signs of the new social era is the degree to which government has become associated … Continue reading →

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Canary in a Coal Mine

Posted on 16. November 2014 by admin

Woodrow Wilson makes a case for regulating corporations. “It was no business of the law in the time of Jefferson to come into my house and see how I kept house. But when my house, when my so-called private property, … Continue reading →

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Why Corporations Need to Be Regulated

Posted on 14. November 2014 by admin

In the following excerpt Woodrow Wilson makes a case for regulating corporations, for making their businesses open to scrutiny so that shareholders may see the scruples and values under which they operate. “There has come over the land that un-American … Continue reading →

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