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Too Much Democracy?

From the November 2003 Print Edition

The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby fareed zakariaw.w. norton, 286 pp, $26.95 Since ancient times, political thinkers have been concerned with the promise and pathologies of democracy. For Aristotle, rule of the many could be just, but only if it was tempered by the . . . . Continue Reading »