The author argues that we need to become republicans in order to effectively think about power and freedom in this new era. Republicanism is an ideology, a set of beliefs and attitudes, a bit like liberalism. The essence of the republican belief is that we should never be subject to the unaccountable power of others - even if those others happen to be benign.

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