Today it is the humane democracies of Scandinavia that are hotbeds of research in behavioral genetics, and two of the groups who were historically most victimized by racial pseudoscience — Jews and African-Americans — are among the most avid consumers of information about their genes.
Presumably Mr. Muntadas would favor a more humane, participatory democracy, but he proposes no practical — or visionary — alternatives to what the French philosopher and social critic Guy Debord famously called "the society of the spectacle".
For many it was Iraq – but we should remember that was born of idealistic hubris, not malignancy, a belief that we could overthrow fascist dictatorships and install humane liberal democracies in the world's trouble spots.
In China, the elite talking to each other have been able to have a more humane system than the Indian democracy".
The Church is not a democracy, and a humane resolution will presumably await the advent of a Pope who seeks one.
He returned from the Civil War believing "in a more humane socialism, in a more radical democracy, and in a revolution of some sort as necessary to give the ordinary people the chance to beat Fascism".
Lewis's rampant anarchy is also a radical democracy, celebrating the most humane impulses of the despised and downtrodden, exalting the noble intentions of pathetic bumblers, elevating the humble bearers of common virtues to heroes — and, along the way, giving the world a good guilt trip for not noticing these things on their own.
He was an unabashed proponent of social democracy, of states that are humane and egalitarian and tough enough to contain capitalism's most flagrant injustices.
The founders shared the belief that bridging divisions of race, class, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, and geographic regions was critical to creating a cohesive force to transform democracy and create a more just and humane state.
