What we get wrong about the Founding Fathers and how it hurts us

By William Barber February 19, 2025Democracy, PoliticsNo Comments

The Founding Fathers never intended to build a broad-based, inclusive representative democracy. This must be understood. Instead, their concern was to build a narrowly-based, exclusive representative democracy that enhanced and…

A TOXIC BREW? TECHNOLOGY, INEQUALITY, AND ISOLATIONISM

By William Barber February 16, 2025Democracy, Economics, InequalityNo Comments

The first 25 years of the twenty-first century in the United States have been dominated by three powerful forces: a technological revolution, increasing income and wealth inequality, and a withdrawal…