{"id":3152,"date":"2019-08-01T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:06:40","slug":"citizens-adrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2019\/08\/01\/citizens-adrift\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Adrift"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Globalization dissolves local cultures, even as technology turns us inward.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u201cpopulism\u201d was the emergent threat. But partisans seldom have clear vision. To understand our troubled world, we must do better. \u201cI have tried to see not differently but further than any party,\u201d Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his introduction to&nbsp;<em>Democracy in America<\/em>. \u201cWhile they are busy with tomorrow, I have wished to consider the whole future.\u201d We should follow his lead, in the hope of seeing further than today\u2019s parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Joshua Mitchell&nbsp;is a senior fellow at&nbsp;Common Sense Society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/citizens-adrift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globalization dissolves local cultures, even as technology turns us inward.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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