In his talk “What is Democracy and How Can We Reclaim It?”, Prof. Michael Thompson of William Paterson University took his audience back to a special time and place in history–Athens in 508 BC. He described the formation of the first democracy recorded in history, and democracy’s essential attributes.
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Democracy, Facts, Truth and Reason
By Dr. Joseph Chuman Reason is a value that Ethical Culture prizes most highly. That reason is a good seems self-evident. Yet reason is receiving a lot of battering these […]
Loving Our Neighbor and the World: Cosmopolitanism and the American Future
By Dr. Joseph Chuman It seems as if Donald Trump is digging his base deeper but no wider. The Democratic constituency, by contrast, has become increasingly diverse. Over 87 percent […]
Reflections on Michael Thompson’s Talk on “Science, Technology and the Rise and Fall of Democratic Culture”
Friends, Today’s speaker was Michael Thompson who gave an absolutely fascinating talk entitled, “Science, Technology and the Rise and Fall of Democratic Culture”. Prof. Thompson took a fairly recondite topic, what is […]
Ethical Culture and the Vitalization of American Democracy
By Dr. Joseph Chuman We are inundated by a spate of books and a tsunami of articles, popular and learned, issuing their warnings about the decline of democracy in America. […]
Journalists Under Fire
By Sylvain Ehrenfeld and Reba Goodman Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, has justified the killing of journalists. In 2016, he said “just because you’re a journalist, you are not exempted […]
