MAY 2013
A Burke for our time
by Charles Hill
He was an eighteenth-century Irish statesman, but Edmund Burke still has plenty to say today.
"This reality is moving our current politics ever more toward the direct democracy that brought down Athens and which led Burke to howl that “a perfect democracy where popular authority is absolute and unrestrained is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.” The same insight led the American Founders to protect their country, in its design, from the dangers of direct democracy."
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