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Blog: American Enterprise Institute – AEI
But whether the term civil society means anything to her or not, Caitlin Clark has taken her place in a uniquely American tradition. It makes perfect sense for Caitlin Clark to be from Iowa, just as it was right for Larry Bird to hail from Indiana.
The post Caitlin Clark and Civil Society appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
Blog: Social Europe
Trade unions and other civil-society organisations are key to fending off the threat from the far right.
Blog: The New Rambler. An Online Review of Books - New Rambler Review
By ADAM KOZACZKA
Review of Character: Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature, by Catherine O. Frank.
Blog: Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Becoming attentive to the material and the structural has linked me much more to the kinds of themes Barry Buzan raises in Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras. Though in reading it I also became conscious that my inner cultural historian still has, and wants, a voice. Let me explain.
The post Structure, Culture and Gender: Makers of Global Society? appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).
Blog: Verfassungsblog
The Indian Constitution is as much a culmination of the ideas of the freedom movement against colonial powers as it is of the achievement of a social revolution through law. Our Constitution, which was inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thus, not only provided for political freedom from foreign rule and established a democratic republic, but it also provided a road map to undo the deeply entrenched hierarchies, inequalities, and social exclusions in our society and therefore for a social transformation. Much of the civil society interventions of the last seven decades have been to work for redeeming the promise of the constitution inside and outside courts.
Blog: Podcast - Orders Beyond Borders
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Continue reading "Interview: James Currey on publishing African Literature"
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Blog: Cato at Liberty
The Cato Institute remains committed to providing the intellectual ammunition needed to win the battle for human liberty, both practically and morally. I believe you will find that passion for freedom on every page of Free Society.
Blog: LSE Southeast Asia Blog
1 February 2024 marked the third year since the military in Myanmar attempted to take power but was instead met with fierce civil resistance which has continued up to today. The post-coup resistance movement, referred to locally as 'Spring Revolution', forms a new phase for civil society in Myanmar, a widely diverse group of actors … Continued
Blog: Religion and Global Society
It feels like every year we have more reasons than ever to bring religion into the social sciences. I've now been editing LSE RGS for the whole of this Gregorian, Julian, and lunar year, and I've enjoyed every second. At the end of each year we look back on the different trends and discourses that … Continued
Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
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Blog: Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Barry Buzan's Making Global Society: A Study of Humanking Across Three Eras is a big and an ambitious book. In this volume he tells us the story of 50,000 years of humankind by constructing a "world history" (p. xi) with the social structure of humankind as its object of study. In doing so, Buzan has undertaken two main tasks.
The post Global Society needs Global History appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).
Blog: Reason.com
"If we can't trust ourselves as a culture to accommodate ideas we don't like," the novelist said at the Library of Congress, "then our ideas lose their value as well, because they become authoritarian."
Blog: Religion and Global Society
For our Covenantal Pluralism series, Alberto Cavallarin applies Paul Feyerabend’s philosophical reasoning to the debates around freedom of religion. On a rainy Saturday, a year or so ago, I found myself in an antique bookstore in the beautiful Dutch city of Utrecht. There, hidden amongst dusty encyclopaedias and old French books, I stumbled upon a … Continued
Blog: Reason.com
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
Blog: Reason.com
These aren't outright bans. But they still can chill free speech and academic freedom.