Deliberately Considered provides a platform for informed response to the events of the day, by putting them in larger historical and theoretical contexts. We are dedicated to lending perspective by considering both what is close to home in the everyday life of ordinary people and what is happening elsewhere in other parts of the world, as well as analyzing what happens on the central political stage of American and global politics. We consider problems with careful thought and with the longer, rather than the shorter, run in mind. We are not primarily concerned with who’s up and who’s down or tendentious polemics, but with trying to understand the promise and perils of politics and culture, exploring alternatives to prevailing clichéd ways of understanding and acting. We encourage people with a various political and intellectual points of view, conservative and liberal, socialists and capitalists, religious and secular, even Democrat and Republican. We seek to break out of what one contributor, Gary Alan Fine, calls “gated communities of knowledge.” People with different views and commitments are not only encouraged to contribute, but to actually engage each other. We are dedicated to the open, critical and deliberate consideration of the problems of our times.
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