Dungey State University Public Service Announcement
All the Podcasts listed in this announcement can be found at www.dungeystate.com and on iTunes under the title, “Deeper Dive.” You can find the DSU podcast under the, “News and Politics,” podcast section.
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Why this Public Service Announcement?
Regardless of your ideological perspective, we are witnessing a fundamental crisis in and transformation of the American social and political space. It is now essential to convey non-ideological, non-partisan philosophical and theoretical information to the general public so citizens may have a deeper understanding of what is taking place, and so they can make more informed, strategic decisions.
The purpose of the PSA is to connect current issues/events in the news to the specific podcasts that engage, interpret, and contextualize these events. They are organized by theme.
1. The Emergence of Authoritarian trends in the Executive Branch. There are
5 podcasts that deal directly with this issue.
A. From Liberal Democracy to Authoritarian Democracy, August 17, 2016.
B. Machiavelli and the DNA of Authoritarian Democracy, August 23, 2016.
C. Hobbes and the Democratization of the Prince, August 30, 2016.
D. Locke, the US Constitution, and the New Machiavellian Prince, September 7, 2016.
E. The Perfection and End of Liberal Philosophy, July 6, 2016.
2. The Powerful President/Executive and Executive Orders/Policies.
A. What is Executive Power? January 5, 2016.
B. Executive Power, December 31, 2014.
C. The Legality of the NSA Spying Program, December 31, 2014.
3. Civil Disobedience and Resistance.
A. Civil Disobedience and the Season of Political Discontent, April 4, 2016.
B. From Thoreau to Foucault: Metaphysical and Postmodern Accounts of Resistance and Civil Disobedience, April 12, 2016.
C. Colin Kaepernik, MLK, and the Philosophy of Protest and Civil Disobedience, September 20, 2016.
4. Political Violence and Revolution.
A. Fear, Death, and the Collapse of the American Political Space, March 10, 2016.
B. De-Legitimization, Political Violence, and Lockean Revolution, March 18, 2016.
C. Locke’s Subjectivist Philosophy of Revolution, July 25, 2016.
D. Ukraine and the Post-Revolutionary Society, December 31, 2014.
5. Hate and the Collapse of Tolerance.
A. Where Does the Hate Come From? November 30, 2015.
B. Liberal Philosophy, Tolerance, and Where We Go From Here, November 15, 2016.
6. How Did Donald Trump Win?
A. The Political Outsider, November 13, 2015.
B. America’s Thrust for the Political Outsider, November 20, 2015.
C. Plato Would be Horrified By Trump’s Rise, May 5, 2016.
7. Globalization and Economic Contributions to Political Crisis.
A. The Rich Should Get More Votes, December 31, 2014.
B. Prediction 3, The Rich Should Get More Votes, December 31, 2014.
C. The Oxfam Report, January 30, 2015.
D. TPP in a Deeper Historical and Theoretical Context, October 7, 2015.
E. Economic Justice, October 28, 2015.
F. Money in Politics, December 7, 2015.
G. Globalization and the Managed Decline of the Western Social-Welfare Democracies, April 27, 2016.
H. Requiem for Liberal-Democratic Capitalism, September 13, 2016.
8. Governmental Dis-function and the Crisis of Legitimacy.
A. Shutting Down the Government, December 31, 2014.
B. Indiana’s Freedom of Religion Law, April 2, 2015.
C. Rand Paul and the Dangerous Myth of ‘Our’ Country, September 3, 2015.
D. Kim Davis and Her Big Misunderstanding of the Constitution, September 16, 2015.
E. The Three Flashpoints of Religion and Politics in America, September 28, 2015.
F. The Battle Over Filing Scalia’s Seat, February 18, 2016.
G. The End of Legitimacy, October 25, 2016.
9. Is America an Orwellian State? (A Postmodern View)
A. The Truth about the Orwellian State, January 12, 2016.
B. The Orwellian State, Part 2: Language as Power, January 25, 2016.
C. The Implications of the View that Language is Power, February 4, 2016.
D. Foucault in the Real World, February 8, 2016.