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Democracy and Economics — Demos Kratia 6

Demos kratia People power. This is about economics and its role in undermining democracy. Let’s begin with Martin Wolf.   He gives us, in this morning’s Financial Times, an excellent and succinct overview of Trump’s inevitable failure to deliver new manufacturing jobs.  He wheels out all sorts of technocratic, and thus highly sensible, arguments based […]

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A Response to that Packer Article

More ruminations on democracy … Demos kratia … People Power. It’s what’s missing in America. At the end of last week a good friend of mine referred me to the recent article by George Packer decrying the end of democracy and America’s slide into authoritarian government.  Our media is full of such commentaries.  They are […]

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Demos Kratia 3

Demos Kratia 3: With due deference to Jill Lepore … We dance around the subject all the time.  We never ask the big question: Is the United States governable?  Or is it too diverse geographically, culturally, and demographically to cohere in any way other than the trivia of July 4th celebrations? I am prompted into […]

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