Monday, November 21, 2011

Democracy

"... democracy is now but a term for the various means by which the few govern the many."
Jonathan Clark, in a review of a new book on Thomas Paine's Common Sense, by Sophia Rosenfeld (Harvard Press 2011) Times Literary Review November 11, 2011, p. 12.

See also, Al Jazeera's excellent piece on the Koch brothers at
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/10/2011102683719370179.html