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Why an intriguing recent experiment in deliberative democracy suggests we can scale it up and make use of it.

Commentary Writing on the anniversary of the “Tank Man” incident in Tiananmen Square (June 5, 1989), I find ...

Thomas Jefferson, for example, admired the ancients, and even called himself an Epicurean.[1] But he also wrote: Let a just view be taken of the moral principles inculcated by the most esteemed of the sects of antt. [= ancient] philosophy, or of their individuals; particularly Pythagoras, Socrates, Epicurus, Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca, Antoninus [= Marcus Aurelius] …. 1. Their precepts related chiefly to ourselves, and the government of those passions which, unrestrained, would disturb our t...