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NEW YORK – Sadness is one of the small number of human emotions that have been recognized in all societies and in all time periods.
Likewise, anthropological work across a great range of societies clearly describes emotions of sadness that develop in response to frustration in love, humiliation by rivals, or the inability to achieve valued cultural goals.
Borders have been made more secure and societies more resilient.
But even small terrorist successes are costly in terms of lives, money, and making open societies less so.
Helping to make societies in the Middle East and elsewhere more democratic might reduce the alienation that can lead to radicalism and worse, but this is easier said than done.
Our societies need to engender greater respect and acknowledgement of others, and to acquire more knowledge about different cultures and religions.
Easy access to guns in the US leads to horrific murder rates relative to other highly educated and wealthy societies.
There can be little doubt that some societies are more steeped in violence than others, even controlling for obvious factors like income levels and education.
The US homicide rate is roughly four times that of comparable societies in Western Europe, and Latin America’s homicide rates are even higher than in the US (and dramatically higher than Asian countries at roughly the same income level).
The US and Latin American countries are all “conquest” societies, in which Europeans ruled over multi-racial societies.
All societies require an effective government that can provide vital and irreplaceable public services and infrastructure.
Privately owned newspapers, independent radio and television networks, trade unions, churches, professional societies, and other groups within civil society provide a bulwark against despotism.
In general, natural resources like oil, gas, diamonds, and other precious minerals breed corruption, because governments can live off of their export earnings without having to “compromise” with their own societies.
Cutting growth rates by 40-70% is surely a recipe for stagnant societies with insufficient growth to satisfy private wants and public needs.
A more effective strategy may be to establish a coalition of civil societies and major financial and non-financial institutions to lead progress toward shared goals.
As a result, most advanced societies impose direct controls on gun ownership.
Our societies and citizens need more freedom if we are to build a more peaceful, prosperous, and secure world.
And that will help societies make better choices, create stronger communities, and enable people to lead more fulfilling lives.
Our societies are more resilient, open, and diverse than ever.
But we can minimize risk by remaining vigilant and upholding at all times the values on which our societies are based.
In Europe, policymakers have failed to counter an expanding sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone’s periphery, despite many summits and programs, multiple expensive bailouts, and the imposition of painful economic sacrifices on societies.
Like oxygen being sucked out of our metaphorical airplane in midflight, deleveraging destabilizes societies and undermines the traditional effectiveness of official policies.
But sovereign decisions are unavoidable everywhere, Schmitt argued, even in societies founded on liberal principles.
Indeed, as 20th century experience demonstrates, in the face of true enemies, liberal societies must apply the rule of law even if the consequences appear harsh and "illiberal."
From the shift toward illiberalism in Poland and Hungary to the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, a particularly lethal strain of populism is infecting societies – and it is spreading.
Today’s populism advances a toxic new xenophobia, one that threatens to fracture our societies.
In much of the West, societies are becoming increasingly diverse.
In this context, when politicians campaign for votes by advancing antagonistic and divisive identity politics, they sow the seeds of animosity, mistrust, and violence within their own societies.
Such divided societies require a rising level of coercion and force to control.
Diversity should be a strength, one that helps societies to flourish.
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