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Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Liberalism: On Dylan Riley's article

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John Ganz
Feb 13, 2021
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I got very irritated this morning by an article in The New Statesman by Dylan Riley, entitled "Why liberal democracies do not depend on truth.” Riley, the author of the very interesting book The Civic Foundations of Fascism, argues that liberal democracies have become besotted with “truth” as its dispensed by experts and bureaucrats, instead of followin…

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