We live in the democratic age. So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835, in his magisterial work, Democracy in America. Tocqueville thought this meant that as eac
We live in the democratic age. So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, in 1835, in his magisterial work, Democracy in America. This did not mean, as so many have believ
America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble
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