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The Collapse of Shared Factual Reality and the Rise of Authoritarianism
American democracy depends on something more basic than institutions or laws: a shared agreement about fundamental reality.
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The Collapse of Shared Factual Reality and the Rise of Authoritarianism
American democracy depends on something more basic than institutions or laws: a shared agreement about fundamental reality.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta di Campo Vaccino, ca. 1775 · Public Domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art