Contrasting Truths: The Aspirations and Limitations of American Democracy
This essay, published in T’ruah’s thought leadership journal Fragments, explores the origins, aspirations, and limitations of both liberal democracy as a concept and American democracy as a tangible manifestation. It argues for a dialectical approach to our current challenges — ie. accepting that democracy is both the fairest, most inherently just system of governance currently available, and that it's also capable of producing and tolerating great injustice.
