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This is a collection of curious articles for students who have taken POS 101 - and would like to keep reading and thinking about some of the issues we discussed (plus some we missed).
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Saturday, January 30, 2016
This
is a slightly controversial (and short) op-ed piece linking the
countercultural revolution of the 1960s to the increasing inequality
in the US in recent decades. The author, American writer Kurt
Andersen, seems to suggest that the youth rebellion of half a century
ago unleashed a force Thinkers like Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill
had warned about – asocial individualism.
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