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What's Happening to America: In This Issue Chalmers Johnson Bill Ayers and Amiri Baraka

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The Trouble with American Democracy

Advocate Staff

It is true that American democracy has come a very long way in the last two hundred and thirty-two years. Before the secret ballot, it was not uncommon to find oneself threatened with bodily harm at the polls, and of course, voter fraud, ballot rigging, and outright destruction of votes, have all been frequent occurrences throughout US history.

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Forgetting Iraq and the Discourse of Responsibility

Steven Pludwin

Asked towards the latter part of his life how he came to define his interest in a series of diverse problématiques, Michel Foucault responded by stating that he was driven by a very basic and fundamental question—the desire to comprehend what is happening around us, to inquire, “What is our present?” In an age of contradictions, when “invasions are touted as interventions” and “occupation as liberation,” that question poses a difficult challenge.

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