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Make-believe Democracy
zadoc wrote: Make-believe Democracy Sunday 16 October 2005 Summary Lewis Lapham is the long-time editor of Harper's Magazine in the United States, as well as being a writer of political and satirical essays. In this address, given in May this year for the opening of the Sydney Writers' Festival, Lewis Lapham delivers a stinging and trenchant critique of contemporary America. His country, he says, has become a make-believe democracy because political debate and dissent is stifled, the media is compliant, and the population under-educated. His fundamental concern is with the loss of the democratic liberty to disagree and to question. Ramona Koval : Throughout this month on Big Ideas, I'm bringing you a range of writers and their perspectives on contemporary world affairs, politics, and culture. Today, a critique of American democracy from Lewis Lapham. He's the Editor of Harper's Magazine and he was in Australia earlier this year to deliver the keynote address that opened the Sydney Writers Festival. It's this address that we're hearing today. Lewis Lapham was born in San Francisco in 1935. He began his career as a newspaper reporter for The San Francisco Examiner, and The New York Herald Tribune. He's been the Editor of Harper's Magazine for the past thirty years and as well he's written several books of essays, including Money and Class in America, Theatre of War, Thirty Satires, and Gag Rule: On the suppression of dissent and the stifling of democracy. So you'll get a sense from those titles of where he's coming from. His fundamental concern is with the loss of the democratic liberty to disagree. Of course he's speaking about the United States of America, but plenty of what he's saying has resonances for democratic societies around the globe right now. So here's Lewis Lapham from the Sydney Writers' Festival. [Applause...] MORE at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1481032.htm I'm listening to this live on ABC Radio National, people can listen on the internet or read/download a transcript at the above link. Cheers, Added alt.machines.cnc,rec.crafts.metalworking -- Cliff |
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