Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail We are governed by phantoms. Not the fun kind that rattle chains in castles, but Enlightenment rational ghosts – imaginary citizens who were supposed to be dispassionate, consistent, and perfectly …

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