Dispensing with his unity message, President Biden reached into the 2020 file cabinet and vowed to win “a battle for the soul of this nation,” the cornerstone of his successful election.
Tag: Democracy (Theory and Philosophy)
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Takeaways From Biden’s Speech in Philadelphia
The president tacitly acknowledged that his predecessor still looms over the politics of the moment.
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Education in America: School Is for Everyone
Our democracy sprouts in the nursery of public schools — where students grapple, together, with our messy history and learn to negotiate differences.
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Education in America: School Is for Making Citizens
Public education requires lessons about history and also contact with and context about other Americans: who we are and what has made us.
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The West’s Illusions About Gorbachev and the Victory of Liberalism
As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach.