SCOUT· 58%1h 21m·2026-02-16·Science344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
It's possible to look at the course of history over the past few centuries and discern a movement toward increasing democracy, freedom, and individual rights -- "liberalism," in the political-philosophy sense of the term. But such movement isn't inevitable or irreversible, and in very recent times there have been both…
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