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(Re)Gaining the Ability to Do Stuff (opens the original)
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I’m excited to continue the series I started on Danielle Allen’s theory of justice by means of democracy. But I need to make a detour to something that is pressing on me right now that I want to think through. It’s too long, a bit raw, and may not even turn out to make sense in the end. On the other hand, something is there and I feel like it connects in interesting ways to my larger project, so I want to at least make a run at it. I’ll be back soon with the next installment on Allen’s work.A ma
Seeking Justice (opens the original)
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... political freedom is a matter of power and has nothing to do with morality; and if one had ever hoped to find a way around this principle, the performance of power at bay, which is the situation of the Western nations, and the very definition of the American crisis, has dashed this hope to pieces.Those words are from James Baldwin’s 1972 book, No Name in the Street, where he grappled with an America that had killed both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. For many of us, it felt like both
User Error (opens the original)
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A friend recently shared this H.L. Mencken quote on a community email thread:As democracy is perfected, the office [of president] represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people … On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun 26 July 1920.Not surprisingly, more than a few recipients saw this as a prescient vision of our own time. It’s
Foundations (opens the original)
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I felt like I’d come to a turning point in my last post. Within a couple weeks, though, it began to feel more like a dead end. I thought I saw a path forward, but instead found myself facing a wall.It wasn’t for lack of topics. There are plenty of topics and I have plenty to say about them. But it was not, apparently, their time. Non-writers may find this odd, but the reality is that I’m not in charge of what gets written in this newsletter. Every time I begin to think otherwise, a wall appears
The News Gap (opens the original)
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[I originally published this in April 2014 as I prepared for conversations with Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at New York University, and Jess Awtry, then-executive editor of the Asheville Citizen-Times. I was focused on journalism at the time, but that turned out to be a path into civic tech and eventually community organizing and local government. I’m republishing it here since I think that the heart of it, respect for the people you serve, is deeply relevant to the task of rebuilding our
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