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The Communitarian Update
Number 29
August, 2000
An update teaser
What percentage of adult Americans do you think are incarcerated? (For answer, see the end of this update.)
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Up Front
When Communities Are Not In Control - E.J. Dionne Jr.
Extremism in the Protection of Liberty Is No Virtue - Amitai Etzioni
Essays
Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Common Good: An Aristotelian Perspective - Thomas W. Smith
Can Aristotle's taxonomy of friendship illuminate a two-decades-old debate?
Confessions of an Alleged Libertarian (and the Virtues of "Soft" Communitarianism) - Jonathan Rauch
A critic of government intervention discovers the importance of "hidden law."
Manners in the Age of New Communications Technologies - Gary T. Marx
Suddenly there are dozens of new ways to be rude. Do respect for privacy and other social norms stand
a chance in the face of cell phones, beepers, and caller ID?
The Face of the New Philanthropy - Peter Frumkin
Led by the young turks of technology, a new breed of entrepreneurs is making its foray into the
world of charitable giving.
Moral Federalism - Alan Wolfe
Maybe Washington doesn't always know best . . .
Devolution as if Community Matters - David Morris
. . . and maybe the states don't always know best, either.
Departments
The Community Bookshelf: Who's Really in Power? - Edward W. Lehman
Review of G. William Domhoff's Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2000.
The Moral Dimension of the Media: Madison Avenue Meets the Bible
Gerald L. Zelizer
Research Note: Small Groups and Civic Engagement-All About Me?
From Our Critics: The Deficiencies of Community
Zygmunt Bauman
The Community's Pulse
Authoritarians, Libertarians, Communitarians
Civil Variety: Is There Life Without a Downtown?
Commentary - Stephen Macedo
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OTHER NEWS
The Third Way to a Good Society
Demos, a London think tank, has published "The Third Way to a Good Society" by
Amitai Etzioni. The pamphlet is available for order. For information on ordering,
please go to www.demos.co.uk.
International Political Science Conference in Quebec.
Etzioni will participate in the panel discussion "Technological Fixes for
Democratic Deficits," to be held on August 3rd.
Be an endorser!
Since being reopened this March we have had 70 new endorsers to
the platform! To read and endorse the platform, go to: http://www.communitariannetwork.org
Community Policing
Under Chicago's community-policing strategy police, community residents and city
agencies are active partners in preventing crime. The community supports law
enforcement through neighborhood marches and other positive street actions which,
according to Chicago mayor Richard Daley, have reduced crime and effected beneficial
changes in the community. (USA Today, 6.20.00)
Liquor Ads on Kids' Web Sites
DoubleClick, Inc. placed ads for Brown-Forman Corp and Finlandia liquor brands on
United Media's Comics.com site. DoubleClick says that since it places over 1.5
billion ads on the Internet each day, some mistakes are inevitable.
New Meaning to Kiddie Porn
A survey of E-porn which ranked surfers by age found that 15.3 % of these surfers are
12-17 years old and 2.2% age 2-11! (Newsweek, 6.12.00)
To be Greek is to be . . .
Thousands of Greek Orthodox clerics and followers have demanded that the government
retract its decision to remove religious affiliations from citizens' identity cards.
Carrying Greek flags and crucifixes and chanting, "Greece is Orthodoxy," they cheered
as the head of the Greek Orthodox Church defended the faith as indivisibly bound with
the country's identity.
Teaser answer: 3% of all American adults are in prison or jail.
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