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Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Small Scale Deliberative Democracy

John Avlon: The way the founders thought and talk about rights in your book is all about this local, very, very interactive implementation of abstract ideas. He says a failure to recognize outsiders and minorities and what you recognize as the problem of bigness are related to each other. Avlon: There's been a transition in American political thought from that lowercase Republican vision to a vision that says "the common good is just an aggregation of the interests of different people"

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