Democracy and Liberal Arts Are Dying Together

Can either be saved?

Johnny P
PolisPandit
Published in
6 min readMar 20, 2023

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Originally published via the Politics Through History newsletter (subscribe!).

The authority for many people today is Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, or [insert your favorite leftist]. Almost nobody reads John Locke’s The Second Treatise of Government to understand the underpinnings of American democracy. They listen…

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Johnny P
PolisPandit

Lawyer writing on law & politics, artificial intelligence, and the future of it all.