Thoughts on the Role of Virtue in a Democratic Society

I’d like to share with you my article, “The Death of Honesty,” published January 12, 2012, in Defining Ideas, a Hoover Institution Journal, which explores how moral numbness brought on by a decline of honesty and a failure to cultivate virtue in citizens can be a threat to democracy.

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1. maria pryshlak says:

   January 22, 2012 at 5:33 pm

   Could you kindly share with me your blog post entitled “Thoughts on the Role of Virtue in a Democratic Society”? I would appreciate it.

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   • Bill Damon says:

     February 7, 2012 at 11:15 pm

     Sure – It is this essay:

     http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/104721

     Plus my book Failing Liberty 101 goes into the issue in much greater depth.

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