The Guild Review

The Guild Review is a blog of art, culture, faith and politics. We seek understanding, not conformity.

Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Monday, May 9, 2011

Who Should Govern?

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One of the most important and enduring questions of political philosophy is, ‘Who should govern?’ If we take ‘politics’ to refer not only t...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Do Wars Make States? - Part II

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Continued from Part I In the case of the United States, the kind of fiscal-military pressures outlined above were instrumental in the develo...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Do Wars Make States? - Part I

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Due to its high costs, war plays a major role in the formation of states, creating the need for an organization larger than the individual, ...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Meritocracy & Losers

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Some time ago now, I posted here a quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America , in which Tocqueville points out the me...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

The Enthymemic Nature of Discourse

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There are many current events in the Church and State that merit our consideration and discussion: the Pope's meeting with the Presiden...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Two Anniversaries

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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the killing by the People's Liberation Army of hundreds, probably thousands, of pro-democracy demons...
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