Skip to main content

Home/ Digital Civilization/ Group items matching "politics" in title, tags, annotations or url

Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Brandon McCloskey

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Glenn Beck: Restoring Honor - 0 views

  •  
    While not everyone believes everything that Glenn Beck says, he has successfully used digital media as a way to promote virtues and honor in our country. I watched the video of this event and was very impressed.
David Potter

Felix Frankfurter's Revenge? A Democracy Built by Judges - 0 views

  •  
    This taped lecture. Summary: Beginning with its landmark decision in Baker v. Carr (1962), the Supreme Court has been actively involved in shaping American democracy for almost 50 years. In his dissent, Justice Felix Frankfurter warned we would rue the day we allowed judges, acting as amateur political scientists, to have the final word on the functioning of American democracy. Enough time has passed to test Justice Frankfurter's hypothesis. Do cases like Bush v. Gore (2000), where five Justices prevented the counting of Florida's votes in the 2000 presidential election, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), where five justices turned American democracy over to corporate lobbyists, mean that Frankfurter was right?
David Potter

The End of the West - 0 views

  •  
    This article gives a history of the political, social, and economic development of the West
Chase McCloskey

The Roots of Modernism - 0 views

  •  
    The page on Modernism and Politics also has some interesting insights.
Kevin Watson

George Washington Quotes - 0 views

  • However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
  •  
    I love the views of the first President. He truly was inspired.
Shuan Pai

Trickle-down Economics and Ronald Reagan - 0 views

  • no significant barrier to the accumulation of wealth by individuals
  • If the rich do well, benefits will "trickle down" to the rest.
  • To qualify as TDE a country must have either a low or flat rate tax on income or only a mildly progressive one (to insure that the rich can continue to get richer, or to trick the poor and middle income people into thinking they can get more and keep it).
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • John Maynard Keynes published his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936 and its main thesis was that the federal budget need not always be balanced. Indeed Keynes proposed that the federal government should run a deficit, especially during a recession/depression.
  •  
    describes the trickle-down economic system
Andrew DeWitt

New Deal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  •  
    Keynesian economics of the 1930s
Katherine Chipman

Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Historical Society - 0 views

  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
anonymous

Edward R. Murrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • See It Now focused on a number of controversial issues in the 1950s, but it is best-remembered as the show that criticized McCarthyism and the Red Scare, contributing if not leading to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. On March 9, 1954, Murrow, Friendly, and their news team produced a half-hour See It Now special entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".[9] Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize the senator and point out episodes where he had contradicted himself. Murrow knew full well that he was using the medium of television to attack a single man and expose him to nationwide scrutiny, and he was often quoted as having doubts about the methods he used for the report. Murrow and Friendly paid for their own newspaper advertisement for the program; they were not allowed to use CBS' money for the publicity campaign or even use the CBS logo. Nevertheless, the broadcast contributed to a nationwide backlash against McCarthy and is seen as a turning point in the history of television. It provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running 15 to 1 in favor. In a retrospective produced for Biography, Friendly noted how truck drivers pulled up to Murrow on the street in subsequent days and shouted "Good show, Ed. Good show, Ed." Murrow offered McCarthy a chance to appear on See It Now to respond to the criticism. McCarthy accepted the invitation and made his appearance three weeks later,[10] but his rebuttal only served to further decrease his already fading popularity.[11] In the program following McCarthy's appearance, Murrow commented that the senator had "made no reference to any statements of fact that we made" and contested the personal attacks made by "the junior senator from Wisconsin" against himself.[12]
anonymous

The Mass Media and Politics - 1 views

    • anonymous
       
      Apparently it is all a consiperacy
Jeffrey Chen

Printculture: Culture, politics, and academic life - 0 views

  •  
    Great blog that really illustrates the use of print in modern days. It discusses many important aspects of daily life.
‹ Previous 21 - 32 of 32
Showing 20 items per page