There's only one problem with the theory of deliberative democracy: Sometimes when you get people talking, they discover they have no use for those who think differently. Working politicians rarely make this error, says Arthur Goldhammer on his new blog, French Politics. They know that democratic debate is as much a matter of innuendo as of reason.
May 23, 2007
Democratic Debate Is a Visceral Thing
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