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Yascha Mounk on the Future of Diverse Democracies

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The Fundamental Unit of Democracy Is a Community of Associations

Mesay: If a problem is that, you know, i'm a member of one religion, and when other people are not religious at all, we're somehow trying to figure out how do we live together ini society. And communitarians, example, i have a kind of answer to that. So according to the communtarian british philosopher lord parick, we should think of society as an association of associations. That can accomplish one key task of libe site to some extent, which is to protect monorti groups against the tyranny of a state. But what this cannot plish is to give us a second kind of freedom that is very important.

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