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Reading, Writing, Thinking
Democracy & Tragedy
Mark Chou argues that the performance of tragedies helped establish democracy.
There are few today who would think to associate democracy with tragedy. With progress, yes. Freedom, perhaps. Maybe even with violence, sometimes. But tragedy, never.
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