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Revolt of The Public

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Liberal Democracy Can Survive in an Age of the Information Revolution

In 20 21, are you optimistic or pessimistic that liberal democracy can survive in an age of the information revolution? And if it can survive, how well? I always say that i am short term pessimistic, long term optimistic. The thing to look at, toflip your question around a little bit, is, if not liberal democracy, then what i mean, i suppose anarchy is a possibility. It's possible. They are structural pressures, and those are big, bigger than any individual but those structural pressures are, to a large extent, an agglomeration of individual choices. So your individual choice really does matter.

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