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		<title>&#124;&#124; Remarks on Conflict and Civility in Contemporary America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes from a panel discussion sponsored by the Stetson Diversity Council,
Stetson Room, Carlton Union Building, Stetson University. 7pm, Thursday, January 27, 2011
(See also Bill Nylen&#8217;s remarks from the same event)
I’d like to offer a few thoughts on these issues of violence and civility in American society.
ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE
First, about political violence:
I don’t think it’s safe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Toward a Democratic Ethic for the New Academic Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his autobiography, famed “founding father” Benjamin Franklin enumerated thirteen virtues which he believed led to a morally more perfect life if systematically mastered: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility.  Franklin’s virtues are considered a classic expression of the so-called “Protestant ethic,” a disciplined lifestyle and set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 4.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/06/08/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth in a series of articles on politically disengaging forms of individualism.  This series explores the connections between individualism(s) and politics through in-depth interviews I conducted with young (20s and 30s) American professionals for a book I am writing on American political culture. Individualism is a word familiar to academics and non-academics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 3.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2010/01/14/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series of articles on politically disengaging forms of individualism (part 1 and part 2). This series explores the connections between individualism(s) and politics through in-depth interviews I conducted with young (20s and 30s) American professionals for a book I am writing on American political culture. 
Individualism is a word familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; A Manifesto for Educational Democracy.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/12/10/a-manifesto-for-educational-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schools as “Leader Training Grounds”
A couple of years ago, I received news from Deerfield Academy, a prep school in Massachusetts and my high school alma mater, that its headmaster, Eric Widmer was to become the first headmaster of the newly formed “King’s Academy,” in Madaba, Jordan.  As Deerfield’s alumni newsletter indicated, The King’s Academy aspires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 2.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/27/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a piece started in this post.
Private individualism’s third inclination is to define freedom in individual rather than collective terms.  Freedom is commonly considered a, if not the cardinal American value.  Contrary to political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville’s early sense that Americans value their equality more than their freedom, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Private Individualism and Political Withdrawal, Part 1.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/10/02/private-individualism-and-political-withdrawal-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of articles on politically disengaging forms of individualism.  This series explores the connections between individualism(s) and politics through in-depth interviews I conducted with young (20s and 30s) American professionals for a book I am writing on American political culture. Individualism is a word familiar to academics and non-academics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Reconnecting with America’s Invisible Democracy.</title>
		<link>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/09/12/reconnecting-with-america%e2%80%99s-invisible-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://thepolity.net/wordpress/2009/09/12/reconnecting-with-america%e2%80%99s-invisible-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lachelier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ask Americans to tell you whatever comes to mind when they think of the word “politics” and to no one’s surprise, a lot of what they say will be negative.  But beyond the negative association with politics, there is another pattern less often noted yet perhaps just as significant for democracy in America: when most [...]]]></description>
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