Propaganda is information of a biased or misleading nature, or misinformation, used to promote a cause or point of view. It is usually disseminated by someone seeking to promote a self-interest ... Read More about Propaganda
Week 32: Citizenship
Democracy – Self-government
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. [Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944), ... Read More about Democracy – Self-government
Being a World Citizen
A universal ethic demands that we act as citizens not only of our community and our nation but of the world. ... Read More about Being a World Citizen
Opposing Injustice
Opposing injustice is standing up in the public arena. ... Read More about Opposing Injustice
Being Publicly Involved through Activism
Being Informed and Socially Aware
Sound public involvement demands that we keep abreast of public affairs. Perversely and tragically, our mass media may have done more to impede this than to promote it. We have access to more ... Read More about Being Informed and Socially Aware
Being Public-Spirited
. . . ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. [John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961 (listen at 14:00).] The emotional component of public ... Read More about Being Public-Spirited
Displaying Citizenship
No man is an island entire of itself; every manis a piece of the continent, a part of the main;if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europeis the less, as well as if a promontory were, aswell as a ... Read More about Displaying Citizenship