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Thu 8:30 | The Democracy Project Focuses On Home-Grown Extremists

Published May 19, 2021 at 10:20 AM PDT Listen • 22:09 Pro-Trump extremists storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Trump on Wednesday. It wasn t foreign extremists who attacked the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th. Those were red-blooded, homegrown American extremists. Kevin Grisham researches the activities of people who fit that category; Grisham is the Associate Director of the And the Democracy Project at Southern Oregon University brought him in to shine some light on the work and the people studied. This session, exclusive to the JX, explores the sources and passions of domestic extremists.

Thu 8:30 | Democracy Project: The Guy Who First Called America Exceptional

Published March 3, 2021 at 10:38 AM PST Listen • 21:50 Alexis de Toqueville, in a portrait by Théodore Chassériau It is a truism, but also sometimes true, that the keenest observers of a situation are people who stand outside of that situation. Take Alexis de Toqueville, the French sociologist who visited the young United States in the 1830s. He was impressed by the country (and also horrified at times), and ended up writing several books, including one that saw something exceptional in the American democratic experiment. The Democracy Project at Southern Oregon University looks to the works of Toqueville in a session offered exclusively here on the JX. SOU Philosophy Chair Prakash Chenjeri returns to talk Toqueville.

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