This blog is a reposting of Cormac Russell's contribution to Axiom News on February 11th 2016. You can see the original article here.
Curator’s Note: The...
According to Thomas Friedman (2005), globalization has evolved over three phases across recent human history: phase one (1492- 1800) was the globalization of countries, phase...
Harry Boyte in “The Citizen Solution” (2009) notes that the rising dominance of experts (technocracy) is hollowing out civic agency throughout American society. This...
Over the next three weeks I’d like to look at three particular areas that are breaking down community, namely consumerism, globalisation, and technocracy.
Consumerism
Walter Brueggemann,...