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(August 24) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Study of Politics and Human Nature
Readings1. Instructions for the August 24, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Study of Politics and Human Nature 4. Journal Article Reading: Scientists Probe Human Nature -- and Discover We Are Good, After All - Ward 5. Video Presentation: Understanding Human Nature with Steven Pinker 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation The Study of Politics and Human Nature [PowerPoint Presentation] What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature - Jarrett Hobbes vs Rousseau: Are We Inherently Evil? - Douglass The Myth of Human Progress - Hedges Human-Made Evolution - Hunziker
Readings1. Instructions for the August 31, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Understanding and Critically Analyzing Political Theory and Buddhism 4. Journal Article Reading: Is "Social Science" an Oxymoron? Will That Ever Change? - Horgan 5. Video Presentation: The Lottery of Birth 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Analyzing Political Theory [PowerPoint Presentation] Philosophy of Social Science - Fay Thomas Kuhn: The Man Who Changed the Way the World Looked at Science - Naughton What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific "Truth" - Horgan How Reliable Are the Social Sciences? - Gutting The Political Compass
Readings1. Instructions for the September 14, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part I: Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero 4. Journal Article Reading: Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US - Chomsky 5. Video Presentation: Excerpts for Examined Life 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part 1 [PowerPoint Presentation] War and Power in Classical Greece: Lessons for Superpowers and the World - Vallianatos The Shaping of American Character - Robbins The Coming Collapse of the American Economic System - Hedges and Wolff The Kavanaugh Battle, Viewed from Rome- Weigel Philosophy: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle - Khan Academy
Readings1. Instructions for the September 21, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part II: God, the Bible, Augustine, and Aquinas 4. Journal Article Reading: More Public Schools Are Embracing the Bible. Is It literature, or Religion? - Sheasley and Jonsson 5. Video Presentation: Waiting for Armageddon 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part 2 [PowerPoint Presentation] Why Thomas Aquinas Stands The Test Of Time - Chalk Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump's United States of Amnesia - Gordon Resist the Lure of Theological Politics - Hamid Fake News? Or Fake Faith? - Alberts Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right
(September 28) Lecture / Discussion Page - Liberalism and Kant
Readings1. Instructions for the September 28, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Liberalism and Kant 4. Journal Article Reading: Lazy Liberals and "the Trump Effect" - Street 5. Video Presentation: Surviving Progress 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Liberalism and Kant [PowerPoint Presentation] Immanuel Kant on Our Duty to Obey Government - Smith Great Thinkers: Immanuel Kant Liberalism's Failures in a Time of Increasing Violence, Racism, Inequality and State Terrorism - Poulin The Liberal Apologies for Obama's Ugly Reign - Street The Inadequacies of Liberalism - Martin and Pimentel
(October 5) Lecture / Discussion Page - Conservatism and Islam
Readings1. Instructions for the October 5, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Conservatism and Islam 4. Journal Article Reading: The West's Moral Panic Behind The Threat Of Radical Islam - Burchill 5. Video Presentation: Islam, Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey - VPRO World Stories 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Conservatism and Islam [PowerPoint Presentation] The Essence of Conservatism - Kirk What Americans Mean When They Say They're Conservative: Freidersdorf Understanding the Complexity of Islamism - Venturini Rationalism in Politics - Oakeshott Have Conservatives Lost Their Compassion? - Olmstead
(October 12) Lecture / Discussion Page - Marxism
Readings1. Instructions for the October 12, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Marxism 4. Journal Article Reading: Why Socialism? - Einstein 5. Video Presentation: Who Was Karl Marx? 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Marxism [PowerPoint Presentation] Marxism Basics - Socialist Revolution COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism - Foster and Suwandi Understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff Kshama Sawant on Malala Yousefzai - Democracy Now The Not-So-Small Voice of American Socialism - Hirthler
(October 19) Lecture / Discussion Page - Darwinian Theories and Western Political Thought
Readings1. Instructions for the October 19, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Darwinian Theories and Western Political Thought 4. Journal Article Reading: Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought - Mayr 5. Video Presentation: Human Zoos: America's Forgotten History of Scientific Racism 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Darwin and Western Political Thought [PowerPoint Presentation] Darwin's Living Legacy - Garcia, Jr. The Ghost at the Birthday Party - Loye Meet the Woman Who Decided to Take on Darwin's Sexist Scientific Theories - Saini Defending Darwin - Dougherty Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Documentary
(October 26) Lecture / Discussion Page - Political Parties and Sartre
Readings1. Instructions for the October 26, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Political Parties and Sartre 4. Journal Article Reading: Think Big, Be Free, Have Sex! 10 Reasons to Be an Existentialist - Bakewell 5. Video Presentation: Sartre: The Road to Freedom 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Political Parties and Sartre [PowerPoint Presentation] The Political Compass (Find Out Where You Are!) Humanism - Helping People - Haught Jean Paul Sartre: Existentialism The Transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties - Against the Grain In An Age of Hollow Men and Existential Angst, Re-read Sartre - Escobar Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy -- The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA - DeGraw
(November 2) Lecture / Discussion Page - Interest Groups and Freud
Readings1. Instructions for the November 2, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Interest Groups and Freud 4. Journal Article Reading: Sigmund Freud 5. Video Presentation: The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines" 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Interest Groups and Freud [PowerPoint Presentation] Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) Interest Groups: Pathways to Participation and Influence - Lumen Interest Groups and Theories of Power in America - McFarland The Freud-Einstein Correspondence of 1932: Theories of War - MacQueen Finding the Lost Voters - Sifry
Readings1. Instructions for the November 16, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Leadership Dynamics, Executive Offices, Bureaucracies, and Confucius 4. Journal Article Reading: Indigenous Leadership Points the Way Out of the COVID Crisis - Litvin 5. Video Presentation: The New Silk Road, Part 1: From China to Pakistan (DW Documentary) 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Leadership and Confucius [PowerPoint Presentation] Get Over It: Asia Rules - Escobar An Emergent Leadership Model Based on Confucian Virtues and East Asian Leadership Practices - Yang Gen Z National Student Leadership Begins Fightback for College Relief - Moses China's Quest for Moral Authority - Schell Cold War II - Lind
(November 23) Lecture / Discussion Page - Legislative and Judicial Systems and Upanishadic Hinduism
Readings1. Instructions for the November 23, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Legislative and Judicial Systems and Upanishadic Hinduism 4. Journal Article Reading: Why the Trump-Modi Friendship Is So Dangerous - Sen 5. Video Presentation: Koch Brothers EXPOSED 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Legislative and Judicial Systems and Hinduism [PowerPoint Presentation] What Democracy? The Case for Abolishing the United States Senate - Rosenfeld Congress: The Pocketing of Power - Parenti Life Tenure Is Too Long for Supreme Court Justices - Taylor Jr. The Triumph of Hindu Majoritarianism - Chandra Class Inequality and Democracy - Krugman
Readings1. Instructions for the November 30, 2020 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] New Directions in Political Science and Important Cognate Fields 4. Journal Article Reading: On the Cowardice & Irrelevance of Social Science Scholars - Dimaggio 5. Video Presentation: Four Horsemen 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation New Directions in Political Science [PowerPoint Presentation] Ecological Politics for the Working Class - Huber The Myth of a 'Value-Free' Social Science Or The Value of Political Commitments to Social Science - Petras The Politics of Social Science - Vidal A Message to the African Political Scientist - Quigley Resistance and the Left with Paul Street - On Contact with Chris Hedges
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Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Active Citizen Participation - Theory)Consent Without Consent: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Democracy - Chomsky Debating Democracy - Miroff Citizen Participation in Decision Making: Is It Worth the Effort? - Irwin Public Deliberation in an Age of Direct Citizen Participation - Roberts Couch Potato Democracy? - Valelly Liberal Individualism and the Crisis of Citizenship - Bellah & Madsen Democracy's Romantic Myths - Mueller
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Active Citizen Participation - Practice)Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Putnam Cultural Currency - Halpern Why Americans Still Don't Vote - Piven & Cloward Playing Dumb? Dan Rather's Curiously Clueless Take on Why American's Don't - Street The Citizen As Respondent: Sample Surveys and American Democracy - Verba America's Civic Condition: A Glance at the Evidence - Galston Guest Post: Should Everyone Vote? - Tyler Durden The Active Citizen - Loeb
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Large Middle Class - Traditional Perspectives)Democracy and Capitalism - Friedman The Road to Serfdom - Hayek The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won't Tell You - Palmer Debating Democracy - Miroff Myths of Rich and Poor - Cox Saving the Dream - Heritage Foundation The Minimum Wage Harms the Most Vulnerable - Richman Terms of Contention - Garfinkle The Inequality That Matters - Cowen Left Out - Fukuyama American Dreams, American Resentments - Mead Capitalism and Inequality: What the Right and Left Get Wrong - Muller Defending the One Percent - Mankiew Job Losses and Trade: A Reality Check - CATO Institute
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Large Middle Class - Critical Perspectives)Demise of the US Middle Class Now Official - Smith America Beyond Capitalism - Alperovitz Democracy at Risk - Gates The Wealth Inequality Reader - Fireside Growth and the Middle Class - Madland The American Dream Has Become A Burden For Most - Younge The Spiral of Inequality - Krugman Are We Still A Middle Class Nation? - Lind The Broken Contract: Inequality and American Decline - Packer The Myth of the Middle Class: Have Most Americans Always Been Poor? - Nasser Obama Destroys the Middle Class - Whitney Understanding America's Class System - Bageant No Functioning U.S. Democracy - Street Dollarocracy: How Big Money Undermines Our Democracy - Nichols and McChesney We've Got A Billionaire Bailout Society - Leopold America's Lost Egalitarian Tradition - Wilentz Facing Up to the American Dream - Hochschild Striking It Richer - Saez The Power of the Rich - Tabb The Great Inequality - Yates Does Inequality Matter? - Jencks Aspects of Class in the United States - Foster Some Economics of Class - Perelman Six Points on Class - Zweig Let's Get This Class War Started - Hedges Pursuing the American Dream: Economic Mobility Across Generations - Pew Charitable Trust
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Widespread Education - Traditional Perspectives)No Child Left Behind - U.S. Department of Education The Evaluation of Charter School Impacts: The Final Report - U.S. Department of Education The Agony of American Education - Snell They're Not Stupid, They're Lazy - Starr
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Widespread Education - Critical Perspectives)Civic Illiteracy and Education - Marciano Teaching Students How to Dissent Is Part of Democracy - Stitzlein The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy - Giroux Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism's Politics of Disposability - Giroux Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism - Boyer Against School: Why Public Education Cripples Our Kids and Why - Gatto Change Can't Come Without Protest - Kozol The Problem With "Failing" Schools - Wilson Tip of the Iceburg: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse - Center for Popular Democracy Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States - CREDO Pearson, ETS, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill Lobby Big and Profit Bigger from School Tests - PR Watch Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition - The RAND Corporation Obama and Duncan's Education Policy: Like Bush's Only Worse - Weil The Fight to Save Public Education - Cooke Waiting for Superman: Heroes and Myths - Olorunda Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy - Giroux The Pedagogy of Oppression - McLaren & Farahmandpur No Child Unrecruited - Goodman White House-Backed Charter Schools Lag Behind Public Schools - Democracy Now!
A Message From the Future II: "Years of Repair"
UNCOUNTED: The True Story of the California Primary - Wake Up California!
The Crisis of Democracy - The Trilateral Commission (1973)
The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto) - Reclaim Democracy!
A Century of War - RT Documentary
The Collapse of the American Empire? - The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Corruption is Legal in America - Represent.Us
Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis - Represent.Us
The Lie We Live [Smart Kid - A Nice Wake-Up Call] - Spencer Cathcart
Understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff
War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler
Four Horsemen - Documentary (Great Stuff! Check This Out!)
Empire Files: Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism
Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism - The Real News Network
Tipping Point: The End of Oil - Documentary
Capitalism Never Solves Its Crises; It Moves Them Around Geographically - RSAnimate
Two American Families - Frontline Documentary
Global Wealth Inequality: What You Never Knew You Never Knew - therules.org
Wealth Inequality in America - therules.org
Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us - Institute for Policy Studies
Park Ave: Wealth, Poverty, and the American Dream - Documentary
Shadows of Liberty - Documentary (Mass Media)
Plutocracy in America - Brenner
The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats - Stauber
Consent Without Consent: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Democracy - Chomsky
Obamacare: A Deception - Roberts
The Purchase of Our Republic - Falkson
The Crisis of Civilization - Documentary
Let Your Life Be A Friction That Stops The Machine - Class War Films
Political Fraud - Class War Films
Financial Crime - Class War Films
Military Cancer - Class War Films
Imperial Decay - Class War Films
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis - Documentary
What Democracy? The Case for Abolishing the United States Senate - Rosenfeld
Making Every Vote Count: The Case for Proportional Representation - Amy
Ignoble Liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the Philosophy of Mass Deception - Shorris
Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again - Baker
The Great American Bubble Machine - Taibbi
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? - Taibbi
Empire Under Obama: Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target - Marshall
Smash the Control Machine - Otep Rocks!
Rise Rebel Resist - Otep Rocks!
The World is Coming to an End - Prince Ea
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