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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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Is Democracy a “thing”?

Demos/Kratia.  The people rule.   Really?  This is a provocation … I realize that this sounds a bit odd: but does “democracy” really exist in any meaningful way? I ask this in the context of the recent rash of angst here in America.  The arrival of an avowedly authoritarian regime along with its “Project 2025” […]

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Where to Next?

A veritable blizzard hit me this morning.  A blizzard, that is, of articles and various snippets that seem to tangle together somehow.  They speak to deep transformations.  And yet none of their authors offered that depth.  Such is our moment.  I wonder when, and indeed if, this will all make sense.  Perhaps we will have […]

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