Op-Ed

Citizens Adrift

augustus 1, 2019

Globalization dissolves local cultures, even as technology turns us inward.

EXCERPT

During the run-up to the 2016 election, leaders in the Democratic and Republican Parties who had agreed about nothing for a generation concluded that “populism” was the emergent threat. But partisans seldom have clear vision. To understand our troubled world, we must do better. “I have tried to see not differently but further than any party,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his introduction to Democracy in America. “While they are busy with tomorrow, I have wished to consider the whole future.” We should follow his lead, in the hope of seeing further than today’s parties.

Joshua Mitchell is a senior fellow at Common Sense Society.

Read the full article in City Journal.

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