Democracy Rising 18: Deliberation, Free Speech, and Democracy

By Daniel Kemmis, Resilience.org

We all have a sense (though often only a fairly vague sense) that free speech is somehow crucial to democracy. But why should that be the case?

Down the Memory Hole: Trump’s Strategic Assault on Democracy, Word by Word

By Karen Greenberg, TomDispatch

Perhaps instead of hurling insults at President Trump’s incompetence and the seeming disarray of his presidency, it might be worth taking a step back and asking ourselves whether there is indeed a larger goal in mind: namely, a slow, patient, incremental dismantling of democracy, beginning with its most precious words.

The Coddling of the Capitalist, White-Supremacist, Patriarchal American Mind

By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org

To avoid being conned, politically and intellectually, it’s important to examine how a debate is framed and what ideology is advanced by that framing.

Review: “Corporations are not People”

By Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com

The title says it all: Corporations Are Not People.