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Does hyper-individualism pose a threat to democracy?

Does hyper-individualism pose a threat to democracy?

Or to put it another way, is freedom now disappearing up its own contradictions?

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Melanie Phillips
Mar 29, 2021
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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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