Amidst the currently contested conceptions of democracy, a review of Michael Schudson’s The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2015).
This referendum manifested a profound disrespect for democracy, in the way it was called, in the way the decision thresholds were framed, and in the way the campaign itself was conducted.
If scientific authority is to produce its democratic goods, it needs to be reimagined and reconstructed in ways that go with the grain of an increasingly mobile and well-resourced audience of critical citizens.
Cynical language may be a staple of democratic debate, but the depth of distrust emerging in our democracies is alarming to many, and particularly alarming in the realm of science. This week’s guest theme inspired by the Cambridge conference taking place on Suspect science: climate change, epidemi
