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| 4361292 | This emergent world appears to us as a wholly unfamiliar rupture from patterns of the past that could frame a reassuring narrative going forward. Philosophers describe the new territory of the future as "plastic" or "liquid," shapelessly shifting as each disruptive innovation or abandoned certitude washes away whatever fleeting sense of meaning was only just embraced. A kind of foreboding of the times that have not yet arrived, a wariness a.. | Nathan Gardels | ||
| 645151e | Belief in the corruptibility of all institutions leads to a dead end of universal distrust," political scientist Francis Fukuyama warns. "American democracy, all democracy, will not survive a lack of belief in the possibility of impartial institutions; instead, partisan political combat will come to pervade every aspect of life."1 And so it has. From a reading of history going back to ancient Rome, we know that this is the way republics unr.. | Nathan Gardels |