Democracy in Our America: Can We Still Govern Ourselves?

One of America’s most distinguished political theorists examines what happens when national politics enters a small New England town

After the election of 2016 and, even more urgently, after the election of 2020, many citizens looked at the economic and cultural divisions that were causing deep disruptions in American politics and asked, “What is happening to us?” Paul W. Kahn explores these fundamental changes as they show themselves in a small New England town—his home of twenty-five year...