Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis The Ministry of Time asks:

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Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis The Ministry of Time asks:From "the nation's leading cultural historian" (David Brooks, New York Times), the long developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice. While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an underlying