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In Democratic Individuality, I argued that at a high level of abstraction, modern conservatives, liberals and radicals believe that the best economic, social and political institutions foster each person’s individuality. Their differences are largely empirical or social theoretical. All clash with modern authoritarians. I will take up practical issues such as torture and the lineage of the neocons and link them to larger issues in how we conceive a decent regime, locally and internationally.

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Rob Prince visits Jeanette Vizguerra – the fight against the racism of ICE

demonizing immigrants / 2 years ago

My friend Rob Prince put up a very good post today on a visit to Jeanette Vizguerra’s sanctuary at the Unitarian Church at Denver, the racism of the INS – long one of the most horrific institutions of America – towards his grand-mother Sarah Magaziner, and the increasing fight against Bannon/Sessions/Miller/Trumpiola. Vizguerra is also an …

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I am John Evans professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and author of Marx's Politics:Communists and Citizens (Rutgers, 1980), Democratic Individuality (Cambridge, 1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy (1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (Chicago March, 2012).

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