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The first duty imposed on those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible, new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions; gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men and circumstances require. A new political science is needed for a world itself quite new.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

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John David LewisJohn David Lewis

John David Lewis earned his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cambridge and is currently visiting associate professor in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at Duke University. He is also Senior Research Scholar in History and Classics at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University; an Anthem Fellow for Objectivist Scholarship; contributing editor to The Objective Standard; and a writer for Capitalism Magazine. His interests are in classical antiquity and its relations to the ethics and politics of the modern day. He is the author of Solon the Thinker (Duckworth, 2006) and Early Greek Lawgivers (Bristol Classical Press, 2007). His recent book is Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History (Princeton, 2010).

 

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