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An artistic depiction of a person harvesting vegetables from a field for community supported agriculture.
Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.
Essays Society 

Community Supported Agriculture Isn’t Just Another Way to Get Fresh Food

April 11, 2022August 28, 2022 12 min read Jared Spears Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Localism

Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.

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American Politics Deliberative Democracy Bargaining Table Daniel Layman
("Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner" by Thomas Nast, 1869)
Essays Society 

American Democracy and Its Broken Bargaining Tables

March 23, 2021April 28, 2021 13 min read Daniel Layman Democracy, Essential Reading, Politics

American politics is in peril. Now is the time to replace our broken bargaining tables with more deliberative democracy.

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COVID Pandemic Cash Benefits Erraticus Garrett Watson
Ideas Society 

Could the COVID Pandemic Spark a Cash Benefits Revolution?

March 15, 2021April 28, 2021 4 min read Garrett Watson Pandemic, Politics

For low-income families, the move toward direct, broad cash benefits might prove to have a long-lasting impact once the COVID pandemic ends.

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Political Trust Polarized Age Revolutionaries Reactionaries Liberalism
(Jeffrey Howard)
Essays Society 

Trust in an Age of Reactionaries and Revolutionaries

January 28, 2021December 23, 2022 18 min read Matthew Downhour Liberalism, Politics

Rather than view recent political failings as flaws inherent to liberalism, we might be better served by focusing on the decline in trust.

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Authentic Democracy Distilled Populism Walter Horn Erraticus
("The County Election" by George Caleb Bingham, 1854)
Essays Society 

Who Cares About Democracy?

January 15, 2021April 28, 2021 9 min read Walter Horn Democracy, Politics, Voting

Some people consider democracy a good thing only if it gets them the outcome they want. Perhaps the US just needs more democratic reforms.

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Mythos Pandemic Sloane Shearman Erraticus Coronavirus Covid-19
(Wikimedia Commons)
Ideas Society 

The Mythos of Pandemic

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 8 min read Sloane Shearman Death, Myth

Without a shared mythos or communal rituals, we face not only the physical threat of coronavirus but also an epidemic of hopelessness.

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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