Does hyper-individualism pose a threat to democracy?
Or to put it another way, is freedom now disappearing up its own contradictions?
Battle of Valmy 1792, which embedded the revolutionary idea of citizens' armies; painted by Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet, 1826
I took part a few days ago in the University of Birmingham’s Vice-Chancellor’s “Great Debate”, which asked the question: “Does the rise of individualism mean the end of democracy?”
The thinking behind the question was this. Democracy …
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