We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Susan GriffinSusan Griffin is an author and social thinker, whose books on the historical fate of the female body (Woman and Nature), pornography (Pornography and Silence), and war (A Chorus of Stones) combine the personal and the political in unusual juxtaposition. On International Womens Day, Griffin was arrested for protesting the war, along with friends Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston and Terry Tempest Williams. Recent articlesThe slow death of American democracy It is not just that the war on Iraq is illegal, unjust, and immoral. It is also an assault on American democracy and freedom itself. A heartfelt cry of opposition from a now fearful American writer. |
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