Trump is a racist who has placed intolerance and bigotry at the center of his campaign in a way that is unique in modern times, but he would not have been able to succeed in this endeavor if the Republican Party had been a more pluralist and diverse institution for the last few decades.
The Dreyfus affair matters not because of the parallel with our time but because it was one of the first tests of modern pluralist liberalism and its institutions — a test that those institutions somehow managed to pass and fail at the same time.
Those who had monitored Modi's words and deeds, noted their consistency, and feared that Hindu supremacism could deliver a mortal blow to India's already enfeebled democratic institutions and pluralist traditions had come to much the same conclusion.
Fortunately, even within the monoculture of the UK economics curriculum, there are institutions in which pluralist, realistic, relevant economics is taught.
Examples, Hermanowicz writes, "include Caltech, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Michigan and the University of California-Berkeley". Below them are institutions he terms "pluralist" because they have multiple goals and place "a premium on both research and teaching".
We saw a wider frame of reference: how, in the digital age, could we deliver a PSB system that was transparent, accountable, pluralist, good value for money, and scalable to changing needs, rather than embedded in self-sustaining institutions?
Because we're so pluralist.
Liberal democracy in a pluralist Iraq remains a distant mirage.
He was a dualist and more, a pluralist.
