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Readers Forum - Frank Fear on POVERTY, BY AMERICA
The American Dream and Nightmare, Living Side by Side Even in the darkest moments, we should allow ourselves to imagine, to marvel over, a new social contract because doing so expresses both discontent with and the impermanence of the current one. From Poverty, By America, p. 134 Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, By America, is a wake-up and clarion call. While there is no defensible reason poverty…
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Reader's Forum - Frank Fear on The Independent Voter
Reader’s Forum – Frank Fear on The Independent Voter
The Independent Mindset, Beyond Politics? I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Independent Voter, and I congratulate the co-authors for writing a well-documented, highly readable, and timely volume. I especially appreciate the scholarly attention given to the manuscript. Plenty of literature is reviewed, and that will only help readers deepen their understanding of what may be framed as “the…
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Reader's Forum - Frank Fear on Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus
Reader’s Forum – Frank Fear on Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus
“Everything Seemed Fine Until It Wasn’t” By Frank Fear Frank Fear Over one million Americans have died from COVID-19—16% of all deaths globally in a country with 4.5% of the world’s people. The catastrophe demands careful and cogent analysis, and Professor Danielle Allen does just that in Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus. And one of the best ways to sense-make is to filter America’s…
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The 20th Annual Anti-Corruption Awards and a message from Frank Fear!
The 20th Annual Anti-Corruption Awards and a message from Frank Fear!
Please join Politics for the People host and founder Cathy Stewart for Independent Voting’s 20th Annual Anti-Corruption Awards! Co-hosted by Stewart and independent activist Amikka Burl, this virtual event will be an inside look into the 45% of Americans who refuse to define themselves through the political parties, and the groundbreakers giving a voice to these independent voters. Cathy…
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Omar Ali’s In the Balance of Power Fills an Education Gap
Omar Ali’s In the Balance of Power Fills an Education Gap
Omar H. Ali’s, In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States, could carry the title, What I Should Have Learned in High School, But Didn’t. Thankfully, Ali fills the gap. To get the most out of the volume (especially because the book was published in 2008 with a revised/ updated edition released in 2020), I recommend beginning with the…
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Reader's Forum -- Frank Fear
Reader’s Forum — Frank Fear
Daley’s Unrigged, Homage to Democracy Activists, Offers Plenty to Chew On Frank Fear Frank Fear
“Getting democracy to work as it should” is more than a head-nodding phrase. It’s an activist call to arms. Democracy is being sabotaged. And what makes David Daley’s Unriggedespecially noteworthy is that he doesn’t write about any kind of political activism; he writes about grassroots…
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Reader's Forum -- Frank Fear
Reader’s Forum — Frank Fear
When
Conventionality
Stifles and
Unconventionality
Stalls
For me (perhaps for you, too), there’s always a passage in a reading that stands out—the ‘it’ of the text, so to speak—words that encapsulate the essence of what’s written. In The Overweight Brain, I found my ‘it’ on p. 149:
Science needs to grow. Knowing took science and us this far. But just like everyone…
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Reader's Forum -- Frank Fear
Reader’s Forum — Frank Fear
Frank Fear responds to the Gruber/Kresky The Hill Oped and Let All Voters Vote.
Gerrymandered to Death
Didn’t We Draw Crazy Maps in Grade School?
Here’s my rendition of Italy, drawn in 5th Grade. That’s a fib, even though it could be true. I didn’t draw this map. Politicians did. It’s a map of Florida’s heavily gerrymandered 5th Congressional District.
Christopher Ingraham sees…
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