… philanthropic engagement for Europe – an idea we refer to as philanthropy with a European purpose – and found that Europe is at crossroads and philanthropy is needed to take action. (European Cultural Foundation,…
… dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world… As a result... Freedom House found that 2019 was the 14th consecutive year of decline in global freedom" (Freedom House 2020).
… the year of a great global turnaround for democracy. Yet, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) also found a considerable increase in political participation worldwide. Though this development could give cause…
…“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” - Aristotle
… - coming under fierce attack from various directions, could ‘new’ insights for rebooting democracy be found in classical Greek and Chinese perspectives? What would the great philosophical sages of East and West…
… America’s outdated neoliberal version of capitalism. The more successful variants of market capitalism found in Europe or, better, in California, point the way forward” (Tyson and Mendonca, 2021).
… world is ugly and is going to get worse. A pandemic required a pan-planet reaction. Instead it found Pangloss in the White House blowing smoke and insisting, as disaster loomed, that it was still the best…
…e analysis elaborated in the 2015 publication “Fit for Whose Purpose?”” and examines “the evolution of the UN Foundation” “in the context of today’s re-evaluation of multilateralism” (Adams and Martens, 2018).
…This report by the Kettering Foundation includes a set of experiments and findings related to democracy, democratic citizenship, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
