Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives' framing of political debates. They have accepted a framing where conservatives want market outcomes whereas liberals want the government to intervene to bring about outcomes that they consider f…
Islam sebagai agam yang membawa pesan universal pada dasarnya terbuka terhadap penafsiran baru sesuai perkembangan zaman. Para filsuf Islam abad pertengahan, termasuk al-Razi, al-Farabi, Ibnu Sina, dan Ibnu Rusyd, telah mencontohkan bagaimana meletakkan Islam dalam konteks kemanusiaan universal pada masanya. Di Indonesia, penafsiran terhadap Islam terutama terkait dengan realitas sosial masyara…
Tata kelola pendidikan untuk rakyat merupakan kredo senapas dengan konstitusi, tetapi menghadapi tantangan dari gelombang liberalisme yang sangat mungkin membajak hak-hak rakyat terhadap akses pendidikan. Ketimpangan pembangunan di banyak sektor akibat liberalisme juga muncul dalam pendidikan
How should democratic societies define justice for cultural minority groups, and how might such justice be secured? This book is a nuanced and judicious response to a critical issue in political theory―the challenge of according equal respect and recognition to minority groups and accommodating their claims for special cultural rights and arrangements.Monique Deveaux contends that liberal the…
Para antek neoliberal beralibi kalau harga beras & gula murah kebutuhan masyarakat akan tercukupi & ekonomi kita akan kuat. Benarkah? Kenyataan anjlok harga beras & gula justru memukul kehidupan para petani & merongrong ketahanan pangan kita. Amburadul kebijakan pangan nasional tak lepas dari campur tangan agen-agen neoliberalisme. Atas tekanan Bank Dunia & IMF pemerintah juga meliberalisasi…
Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions ‘negative liberty’ and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left – free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life. The triumph of liberalism has had the effect of subordinating human association and the common good to narrow self-interest and short-te…