Tag - democracy

We Will Forget

As a child of the seventies, my older relatives assured me that they remembered exactly what they were doing when news of President Kennedy being shot arrived. The event was still fairly recent, just a decade or so...

Power: It’s Not Just for Monarchs Anymore

During a recent political discussion on—where else?—Facebook, a friend of a friend made the following shocking claim: When America's founders warned about the concentration of power in government, they were speaking...