Comments on: Book review – Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose/2020/03/30/book-review-beasts-and-gods-how-democracy-changed-its-meaning-and-lost-its-purpose/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:33:38 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Flaws That Kill Our Democracy | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/03/30/book-review-beasts-and-gods-how-democracy-changed-its-meaning-and-lost-its-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-10408Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:25:44 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7572#comment-10408[…] off a small chain reaction. Not long after posting my review of Can Democracy Work? the author of Beasts and Gods send me a review copy of her book. That review was followed by a message from bioinformatician and […]

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]]>By: Book review – In Defence of Democracy | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/03/30/book-review-beasts-and-gods-how-democracy-changed-its-meaning-and-lost-its-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-8933Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:46:06 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7572#comment-8933[…] practices. She is particularly fascinated by Athenian democracy, the subject of her previous book Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose, which provides valuable background reading. That book attacked current democracy, judging it to be […]

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]]>By: Book review – Against Democracy | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/03/30/book-review-beasts-and-gods-how-democracy-changed-its-meaning-and-lost-its-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-8929Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:44:56 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7572#comment-8929[…] of the Many). Fuller, for example, promotes an Athenian-style direct democracy (see my reviews of Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose and In Defence of Democracy). Despite her confidence in voters, I have my doubts about the […]

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