Democracy’s Children

Why Leibnitz’s dictum was quite wrong

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Not so long ago, everyone on Earth would agree that Kings and Queens and Emperors Sultans and Tzars were the only legitimate form of governance. For well over six thousand years all of humanity lived under such systems both small and, increasingly, large, with only the briefest of interludes. Those individuals at the very top of the social apex were believed to be…