Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians

Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians

The Rider & the Elephant – Jonathan Haidt on Persuasion and Moral Humility

The Rider & the Elephant – Jonathan Haidt on Persuasion and Moral Humility

NYTimes.com: Defeating Trump Is Just a Start

Defeating Trump Is Just a Start

We need to fight political despair everywhere we find it.

We do not practice democracy alone, of course. We do it together, in community, as equals. “Democracy as a way of life,” wrote Dewey in a later essay, “is controlled by personal faith in personal day-by-day working together with others.”

Unfortunately, as the law professor Aziz Rana observes in a recent essay on political freedom in Boston Review, there are scarcely any spaces in the contemporary United States where ordinary Americans practice the habits of democracy and inhabit a more reciprocal, participatory and solidaristic vision of freedom. Decades after Ronald Reagan led a sweeping attack on the idea of the commons in American life, Rana writes, “there are vanishingly few sites in American life — at work or in politics — where these experiences actually exist.”

“We are simply not raised in cultural worlds in which collective agency is a meaningful reality,” Rana goes on to say.

Recent expressions of labor militancy have been heartening, but they have also come at the same time that conservative politicians, entrenched financial interests and neoliberal ideologues have targeted what’s left of our commons — and in particular, our public schools and universities — to be stripped for parts.

***** NYTimes.com: 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works.

48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works.

We have the tools we need to create a world where addiction is just one aspect of people’s lives instead of a dark portal to despair and early death.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/opinion/addiction-policy-treatment-opioid.html?smid=em-share