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Opinion – The expanding theatre of violence and foreboding
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Opinion – The expanding theatre of violence and foreboding

In an essay titled ‘Has Democracy a Future?’, historian Arthur Schlesinger wrote that “people of goodwill in 1900 believe in the inevitability of democracy, the invincibility of progress, the decency of human nature, and the coming reign of reason and peace”.  The then-president of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan, echoed Schlesinger’s positive outlook by adding...