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On the Death of Republican Civic-Mindedness

Corruption rises where once integrity stood

Hamlet, Horatio, & Marcellus and the Ghost | credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art | Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

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My formal education in civic-mindedness began at the age of six in first grade, 1954. A United States flag stood behind the teacher’s desk in mine and every…