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From heresy to conventional wisdom? Excellent New York Times<\/strong> series of articles on crisis of democracy leads with my quote: “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” Headline for the lead NYT essay by Serge Schmemann<\/span><\/a>: “Are the Wolves Devouring Democracy<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

Hard-nosed realism on democracy is good news for the survival of liberty.<\/p>\n

The wolves\/sheep line is from Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Libert<\/a><\/strong>y (St. Martin’s Press, 1994).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From heresy to conventional wisdom? 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