Are Americans still willing to bear the burden of self-government?
Excerpt from Money and Class in America, Lewis Lapham (1988). Lapham talks about America’s decreasing willingness to bear the burden of self-government, a long-standing theme of this site (at the end you will see links to other posts on this subject). The Precarious Eden (page 158-159) Under a republican form of government the citizenry supposedly …
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