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Ideas | Oct 5, 2011 | 57:25

1993: Democracy on Trial, Part 1

Even as democracy triumphed over totalitarianism, our own democracy was faltering rather than flourishing. Famed political philosopher - Jean Bethke Elshtain - examines democracy's ability to survive the perils that now beset it.

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