US GOV: Pol Culture Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sat, 13 Jun 2020 08:57:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 One Nation Under God? https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/16/one-nation-under-god/ Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:59:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5348 The words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and the phrase “In God we trust” on the back of a dollar bill haven’t been there as long as most Americans might think. Those references were inserted in the 1950s during the Eisenhower administration, the same decade that the National Prayer Breakfast was launched, according … Continue reading One Nation Under God? →

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]]> KCRW Discussion: One Nation under God…but Since When? https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/kcrw-discussion-one-nation-under-godbut-since-when/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:59:17 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5258 American values may be compatible with the Christian Bible…but the Founding Fathers insisted on the separation of church and state. Yet many Americans believe they live in a historically “Christian Nation.” We hear about a long-running campaign to associate religion and politics.

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]]> Mudslinging in 1800 and Beyond https://daniellazar.com/2012/11/04/mudslinging/ Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:39:10 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3966 I want to push back a bit on the Diehl-Rocks thesis that the election of 1828 is the genesis of dirty campaigning. Thomas Jefferson supporters accused Adams of being a hermaphrodite with “neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” In response, the Adams campaign accused Jefferson … Continue reading Mudslinging in 1800 and Beyond →

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]]> T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America' https://daniellazar.com/2009/09/18/t-r-reid-looking-overseas-for-healing-of-america/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:27:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1816 Journalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors’ offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. Reid is a foreign correspondent … Continue reading T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America' →

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]]> Civil Society Readings, CCS & Lippmann https://daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/in-civic-engagement/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:02:01 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/in-civic-engagement/ The Center for Civil Society, What is Civil Society? Walter Lippmann from The Phantom Public Reading responses to CCS and Lippmann

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]]> Political Culture https://daniellazar.com/2007/09/19/political-culture/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:56:06 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2007/09/19/political-culture/ Consider the following news headlines from across the globe: The Russian president proclaims that he will appoint hundreds of political officials who until then had been elected by the people, and no one in the country seems to object. The Chinese government sends troops to arrest farmers who refuse to give up their land to … Continue reading Political Culture →

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]]> Teaching Against Idiocy https://daniellazar.com/2007/08/29/teaching-against-idiocy-walter-parker/ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:54:41 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2007/08/29/teaching-against-idiocy-walter-parker/ Contemplating the root of the word “idiocy” leads Dr. Walter Parker to explore the challenge that democratic societies face of developing public-minded citizens. The schools, he argues, are the most likely institutions to succeed in that task. The Article The Response Sheet

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