An EZ Guide to Modern Politics
By Francis X. Maier Yes, alas, it's another election year. You know what that means. The free-fire zone, formerly known as our public square, demands that we steal a break from our screens – and think. We think in order to understand. And we best understand the character of our times by tracing the lineage of the ideas and actors who have shaped them. Marx, Nietzsche, and many others are among the usual suspects. But I'd argue that the pedigree goes much farther back. The late political activist Saul Alinsky named the founder of the modern revolutionary spirit on the epigraph page of his…
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