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What I’m Reading:

Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that, after two and a half centuries — about the length of the Roman republic in its glory — American democracy is disappearing.

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, the universal ideas of the founding documents no longer seem to have their hold on many Americans, especially younger ones.

— George Packer / “America’s Zombie Democracy” / The Atlantic