Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Weekend Interview with Harvey Mansfield: The Crisis of American Self-Government - WSJ.com

 

'We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency."

Few have thought as hard, or as much, about how democracies can preserve individual liberty and national virtue as the eminent political scientist Harvey Mansfield. When it comes to assessing the state of the American experiment in self-government today, his diagnosis is grim, and he has never been one to mince words.

The Weekend Interview with Harvey Mansfield: The Crisis of American Self-Government - WSJ.com

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