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Democracy and the Demagogue | New York Times | October 2015 In Book VIII of “The Republic,” Plato is clear-eyed about these perils for democracy. He worries that a “towering despot” will inevitably rise in any democracy to exploit its freedoms and seize power by fomenting fear of some group and representing himself as the protector of the people against

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Minasuk/ November 11, 2014/ Uncategorized

62p AN HOUR: What women sleeping 16 to a room get paid to make Ed and Harriet’s £45 ‘This Is What A Feminist Looks Like’ T-shirts | Daily Mail | November 2014 Feminist T-shirts proudly worn by Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Harriet Harman are made in ‘sweatshop’ conditions by migrant women paid just 62p an hour, a Mail on

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Minasuk/ November 11, 2014/ Uncategorized

Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy | TPM | April 2014 A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that over the past few decades America’s political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where

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Minasuk/ November 11, 2014/ Uncategorized

Scholar Behind Viral ‘Oligarchy’ Study Tells You What It Means | TPM | April 2014 A new political science study that’s gone viral finds that majority-rule democracy exists only in theory in the United States – not so much in practice. The government caters to the affluent few and organized interest groups, the researchers find, while the average citizen’s influence

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