Against Democracy: New Preface
Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
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to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
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Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
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