At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recogni….

I just can't imagine that it's only a coincidence. I think they feel that it's kind of getting out of their control, and they're trying to tighten it….

From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public delibe….

A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their liv….

Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular ci….