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If you’re not doing politics, you’re not doing enough. Review: Slow Democracy

By Erik Curren | November 26, 2012

Fairfield City Council

"We live in an anti-political moment," wrote David Brooks last week in the New York Times, "when many people — young people especially — think politics is a low, nasty, corrupt and usually fruitless business. It’s much nobler to do community service or just avoid all that putrid noise." Brooks rightly suggests that seeing Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln will show that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Politics Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, David Brooks, Food Sovereignty, government, Local, local government, local sovereignty, slow food, Susan Clark, Woden Teachout

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