The Takeaway

Two Cheers for Democracy?


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If democracy requires the participation of equals, has the U.S. ever really been a democracy? Professor Jedidiah Purdy of the Duke University Law School says no.

He joined to discuss his new book, "Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening — and Our Best Hope," which argues that the best version of democracy is a never-ending, always-shifting participatory process... and that’s something that the United States has yet to achieve. 

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