in the NY Times: Today’s News Quiz. The only thing I’d add is that our own democracies, though robust, could use a little refreshing as well. All this stuff about holding people without charges and summary judgements and general reduction of civil liberties in the post 9/11 world is profoundly anti-democratic. And it is my deep belief that the only clear way out of this whole mess is to strengthen our democracy, not to dilute it with hysterical laws and such.
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