Joe Costello on democratic politics and the Civil Rights Movement

"Immersed in our degraded political culture today, a person finds it difficult to appreciate only fifty years ago the United States experienced one of the great democratic movements of world history."

For something a little different, I’m republishing a hybrid book review slash essay on democracy by my friend Joe Costello. Joe’s been around politics and thinking about politics pretty much his entire life. Anything that he writes is worth reading slowly and carefully — especially his work on the politics of technology, which I highly recommend.

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