The temptation of electoral tradition
Does tradition still define our electoral politics?
Over 200 years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke went to task with each over the French Revolution. The French Revolution, whilst promising equality, friendship, and liberty, produced a reign of terror in a chaotic environment where no one was safe. Many assume debating over the French Revolution is merely a debate about values, yet it was also …
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