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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

“The Downside of Liberty”

8:13 PM | Posted by Ivelin Sardamov | | Edit Post
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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