Modernism in fact competed against Democracy by advancing a prospective paradigm of 'progress' conditioned on divorcing itself from all 'unverifiable' subjective cultural knowledges -- both those dogmatically religious and vaguely spiritualist.
A literacy test should be given to all prospective workers who staff these bastions of democracy.
The new test will also try to ensure that prospective citizens understand basic concepts of American democracy and are not merely reciting facts by rote.
"We do have the right and duty to discriminate on the basis of whether prospective citizens will accept and uphold our democracy and culture, our Australian laws," she said.
"We do have the right and duty to discriminate on the basis of whether prospective citizens will accept and uphold our democracy and culture, our Australian laws," she said last week.
And we shouldn't underestimate the straightforward appeal of the democracy of the Web, attuned to a new age of prospective collectors.
— CHARLIE SAVAGE, a reporter for The Boston Globe and the author of "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy". 1. Social Security will go into a cash deficit during the next president's prospective second term.
