by Ieva Notturno | Feb 2, 2012 | Blog
“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. The policies that...
by Ieva Notturno | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
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...
by Adolf Gundersen | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog
Americans are privileged to enjoy perhaps the world’s strongest legal safeguards on the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly. Yet as undeniably important as these safeguards might be, they do not by themselves ensure either widespread or robust democratic...
by Adolf Gundersen | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog
Conventional views of the policy-making process are helpful–as far as they go. But they usually leave out a good deal, especially with respect to the potential role of democratic discussion. Consider, for example: Emotions, habits, beliefs, attitudes,...
by Adolf Gundersen | Aug 15, 2011 | Blog, Education
A third alternative to thinking about public discussion as debate or as the immediate prelude to decision-making is to understand it as a means of testing contrasting conceptual possibilities. Testing of contrasting conceptual possibilities—whether these have been...
