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The 13th Bell
Politics, power, and the world

Ideas

Arguments about how a republic is supposed to work.

In Defense of the Slow Committee

Deliberation is treated as an obstacle to be routed around. Most of what it produces cannot be produced any other way.

Patriotism Without Nostalgia

Attachment to a country is usually expressed as a claim about its past. It works better as a claim about obligations in the present.