Like many people, I am spending increasingly more time working, educating myself, socializing, and shopping online. Search engines like Google and Yahoo, online companies like Amazon and Ebay, and social media networks like Facebook and Twitter are making my online… Read More »
Tag Archives: democracy
Is Online Relevance Killing Diversity?
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What Does It Mean to Develop a Policy Possibility?
What does it mean to develop a policy possibility? And why do we spend so much time doing it in our sanctuary projects?
Most IF projects follow the same discussion process: the panelists first develop concerns that Americans may have… Read More »
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On Wisconsin
At its best, democracy isn’t just “rule by the people” or even “rule of, by, and for the people.” It’s rule by people who listen to each other.
Wisconsin’s Republican leadership has turned a deaf ear to one house of… Read More »
What’s a Conceptual Policy Possibility?
Interactivity Foundation Project Discussions aim at generating contrasting conceptual policy possibilities with the hopes of expanding and enriching public thinking about a complex area of social and political concern. You might think of a “policy” as providing a sort of… Read More »
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There are policy discussions and then there are policy discussions
Election time is probably the time when people hear and talk about policy the most. So you may feel that you have already heard way too much about policy debates in recent months. And you may feel—just like me—completely disgusted… Read More »
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The Questions We Ask
At the dawn of western philosophy Socrates was asking questions in the Athenian agora. The whole of western thought has arguably been developed in search of answers to the questions he asked. But our understanding of philosophy and science has… Read More »
An Exemplar of Civic Conversation
Owen Coyle, a friend of over thirty years duration, passed away a week ago and the time since has been filled with memories of political collaborations and stories shared about our other adventures. The collaborations started with sharing the same… Read More »
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IF Essay on CNN Website: How to Keep Wall Street Under Control
The Opinion section of CNN’s website has just published a short piece, How to Keep Wall Street Under Control… Read More », by IF Fellows Adolf Gundersen and Jeff Prudhomme, with editorial and other assistance from IF Fellow Natalie Hopkinson. You can
‘The Best-Laid Plans…’
“Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men
who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage”
Aristotle
Actions have consequences. Whatever we do in both our private and public lives has consequences.… Read More »
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