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Dan Little is a retired professor of philosophy and public policy. Understanding Society has been published since 2007 treating issues in philosophy of social science and social justice.
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Maintaining social resilience undsoc.org/2026/01/31/m...
Maintaining social resilience
What is needed for a community of diverse people and groups to maintain its resilience in the face of hateful language, incidents, and provocations? This question is particularly important for univ…
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January 31, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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How democracies die undsoc.org/2026/01/25/h...
How democracies die
image: Senator Josh Hawley salutes January 6 insurrection Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have written with growing alarm about the threat to our democracy by right-wing extremism. How Democraci…
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January 25, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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We are in a bad way! affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/25/w...
We are in a bad way!
The shooting of Alex Pretti, citizen, nurse, and caring man, a killing that was fundamentally unprovoked, fundamentally an execution, and apparently beyond all accountability or genuine investigati…
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January 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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MAGA's "Dilbertian" Movie (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/21/m...
MAGA’s “Dilbertian” Movie (Gary Krenz)
I should be posting about our very real and very immediate world crisis.  There is a lot to say, to be sure, but really one thing that should be done: “25th Amendment: Now!” I’d like instead …
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January 22, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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The dual state (1938) undsoc.org/2025/12/19/t...
The dual state (1938)
Ernst Fraenkel’s book The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship offers instructive and ominous reading today. Written during the rise of Hitler’s National-Socialist s…
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January 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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ICE OUT rally in Ann Arbor affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/10/i...
ICE OUT rally in Ann Arbor
Enthusiastic turnout for ICE OUT rally in Ann Arbor this morning …
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January 10, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Good and Evil (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/08/g...
Good and Evil (Gary Krenz)
I am essentially at a loss for words about the killing of Reneé Nicole Good. This is a wrenching, grievous moment — of course especially for those close to Good, and for those who were eye wi…
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January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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We (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/05/we/
We (Gary Krenz)
We — yes, we — are in an emergency situation.  We — yes, we — have illegally, according to our own laws, and in defiance of our UN agreements, invaded Venezue…
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January 6, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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The Viceroy of Venezuela (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/04/t...
The Viceroy of Venezuela (Dan Little)
The appointment of Marco Rubio as Viceroy of Venezuela is another deranged step taken by Donald Trump’s regime. It must not stand. It is an inherently imperialistic and royalist title (vice k…
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January 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Kidnapping a foreign head of state (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/03/k...
Kidnapping a foreign head of state (Dan Little)
The Trump administration must be held accountable for its latest act of international criminality. To kidnap the president of Venezuela and his wife is completely illegal and reckless. There is no …
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January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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Self-evident truths (Declaration musings II) (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2026/01/01/s...
Self-evident truths (Declaration musings II) (Gary Krenz)
Happy New Year! In this second musing on the Declaration of Independence (the first is here), I would like to reflect on the document’s core ideals and what they might mean for the renewal of…
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January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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A submission of facts to a candid world (Declaration musings I) (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/31/a...
A submission of facts to a candid world (Declaration musings I) (Gary Krenz)
Happy New Year! Tomorrow we enter the year of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There will be much to review and discuss about America’s Revolution (I haven’t watched the Ke…
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January 1, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Against Christian nationalism (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/24/a...
Against Christian nationalism (Dan Little)
In his speech to Turning Point USA Vice President Vance affirmed belligerently that the United States was a Christian nation. MS NOW writer Erum Salam noted that The vice president also said that ‘…
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December 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Our Caligula president (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/17/o...
Our Caligula president (Dan Little)
Donald Trump’s actions often defy historical analogies. Recurring themes that have no precedent in US history include his transparent goal of imposing his unilateral will on our country, crushing a…
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December 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Higher education in the age of Garfield (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/08/h...
Higher education in the age of Garfield (Gary Krenz)
Here is a parochial footnote to my post on “Death By Lightning.”  As I said in that post, Garfield was intent on ending the spoils system and professionalizing the civil service. T…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Our American Heritage (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/07/o...
Our American Heritage (Gary Krenz)
Barb and I just finished watching the mini-series about the assassination of President James Garfield, Death by Lightning. It’s on Netflix, and if you are able to watch it, I highly recommend…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Phil Klay's moral analysis of the boat strikes (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/06/p...
Phil Klay’s moral analysis of the boat strikes (Gary Krenz)
There was an outstanding op-ed in the NYT yesterday by Phil Klay, “What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes.” It is a thoughtful moral analysis of a sort that we too-seldom see …
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December 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Welcome to Oceania, ca. 1984 (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/05/w...
Welcome to Oceania, ca. 1984 (Gary Krenz)
The so-called “double-tap” – a terribly sanitizing word – attack on two stranded Venezuelans in the Caribbean continues to be front and center in the news, and now some members of Congr…
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December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Welcome to Oceania, ca. 1984 (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/05/w...
Welcome to Oceania, ca. 1984 (Gary Krenz)
The so-called “double-tap” – a terribly sanitizing word – attack on two stranded Venezuelans in the Caribbean continues to be front and center in the news, and now some members of Congr…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Trump's unhinged racist attack on Somalis ... (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/04/t...
Trump’s unhinged racist attack on Somalis … (Dan Little)
The president of the United States has completely lost control of his inner racist rage … his words about "Somalis as garbage" are so fundamentally disgraceful that all citizens mus…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/03/y...
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat (Dan Little)
Astounding, isn’t it, that young New York Republicans still don’t get it: supporting Nazi-style slogans and celebrating the leader of Germany’s extremist AfD fundamentally reveals their racist beli…
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December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Jen Rubin on the order to "kill everyone" (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/12/01/j...
Jen Rubin on the order to “kill everyone” (Dan Little)
Jen Rubin’s meticulous and detailed analysis of the criminal status of the Hegseth order is exceptionally good. She quotes the relevant parts of international law, pulls together expert opini…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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A Belated Thanksgiving Post (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/11/30/a...
A Belated Thanksgiving Post (Gary Krenz)
Thanksgiving is a few days past, but here’s a belated thanksgiving post — just before the end of the holiday weekend. To begin, here’s a nice post by Robert Reich from a few days …
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December 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The Washington Post Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all (Dan Little) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/11/28/t...
The Washington Post Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all (Dan Little)
This is surely a war crime, on a par with atrocities committed by the Russian army in Ukraine. No members of these boat crews are “combatants” in the technical sense, there is no state …
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November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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State Media by Proxy (Gary Krenz) affirmingdemocracy.org/2025/11/26/s...
State Media by Proxy (Gary Krenz)
Ben Schwartz has an excellent piece in The Nation, “Trump’s Quest for Total Media Control.”  It lays out in concise fashion how the various strands of Trump’s attacks on med…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM