Blogs Posts on "Republicanism"

Demolishing American Myths About the National Health Service by The Pequod on Aug 12, 2009Sometimes, from my seat in the United Kingdom, it is hard not to laugh at politics in the United States. Take the fierce war about healthcare reform currently being fought in town halls throughout the country. Waking up bleary-eared to the radio news...

Sabbatical, Day 65: Jesus Clears The Temple, We Visit London And The Lolly Stick Cross by Big Circumstance - the blog of Dave Faulkner, a Methodist minister in the UK on Apr 6, 2009more about “Damaris Trust Holy Week 2009, Monday:…“, posted with vodpod Here is the second Damaris Trust video for Holy Week. Tony Watkins talks about the surprising display of anger shown by Jesus as he cleared the temple courtya...

The American Republic of Virtue by Understand America on Apr 1, 2009Looked up from a distance, the success of the American Revolution in throwing off the yoke of British rule must have seemed miraculous. So miraculous, in fact, that forever afterward, the leaders of the revolution, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson...

The American Revolution by Understand America on Mar 18, 2009More than merely signaling America’s political dissolution from the British empire, the Revolution pegged the republic Americans would create to the expectations and principles of the Enlightenment: to Locke, to the classical and liberal republican...

John Locke’s Political Theory and Its Influence on American Thinking by Understand America on Mar 10, 2009We’ve met the multifacetic John Locke before as a philosopher. But he was not less controversial and not less talented as a political theorist. In his two Treatises on Government, Locke went straight to the bedrock of politics as he had in his Essa...

BBC Bias and the Republican Other by The Pequod on Oct 24, 2008I have noticed quite a few US-based commenters on various message boards (see here, here, and here) lamenting the way in which the European media have been biased in their coverage of the US election; in particular, they criticise the BBC for leering...