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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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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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