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From Republic to Technocracy: The Costs of Sacralizing Democracy
The sacralization of “democracy” as the supreme and nearly unassailable name for legitimate government produced cascading institutional, intellectual, and…
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When Socialists Claim the Common Good: Mamdani and Sanders’ Framing on Public Goods and Services
Zohran Mamdani recent statement on Jon Stewart’s The Weekly Show provides us with time to observe an example of…
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The Civic Republican Tradition versus the Modern Republican Party
THE CIVIC REPUBLICAN TRADITION VERSUS THE MODERN REPUBLICAN PARTY The only true Red cap we recognize is the Red…
From Cicero’s republic through Charlemagne’s commonwealth and Petrarch’s revival of letters to the Republican Revolutions, one tradition alone has fought arbitrary power in every age, the civic republican tradition, and we fight for its living continuation. The Republican Tradition as a noble cause of Humanism is not yet spent. It was from antiquity to the early modern period, the result of eclecticism with elements of synthesis. A reinvigoration of its ideal and civic philosophy within our thought, life, politics and culture is the best strategy to save, enhance and fortify our democratic institutions, civic literacy and human ingenuity.
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Journey through the legacy of early Black Republicanism, from Phillis Wheatley’s neoclassical verse and Benjamin Banneker’s scientific rebuttals to David Walker’s fiery classical oratory and Frederick Douglass’s radical reimagining of liberty as freedom from arbitrary domination — and discover its vital key to a New Black Renaissance
Adventure through revolution, narrative, symbolism, mythology and philosophy learning the interconnected origins and lineage of classical republicanism, democracies, philosophy, eclectics and theosophy. Let us journey, learn, teach and create new spiritual attitudes, style and dynamic ways of life and practice. We radically diverge from the modern materialist life and political habits and choose the quickening fire of revolution, illumination and civic responsibility.
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