Scenes from a Broken Hand

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Tug of Peace

Tug of Peace

People and parties can win an election, but only all of us, together, can win the democracy

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Andrew Ordover
Sep 03, 2023
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We are inheritors of the longest-running democratic republic in the world (or one of them, if you include the Isle of Man and San Marino), but we are woefully and dangerously ignorant about what it really is and how it works. The Founders who imagined this country into being were students of history, deeply read in the rise and fall of republics. Thomas…

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