The crisis of American democracy
The journalist Robin Wright, writing in The New Yorker (September 8, 2020, online), asks, "Is America a Myth?", a myth that no longer holds the country together. Unlike other countries united by blood and soil, the United States, social scientists have told us, has been held together by a set of ideas — the self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence: that "all men are created equal" and that "they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights … [to] life, liberty...
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