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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed
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World Edition - The Atlantic
theatlantic.comfaster churning of companies in and out of the S&P 500, the death of news and the newspaper, the failure of established