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Author: Chandana Ukwatte

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Education, Politics and Governance

How The Well-born Have Been Failing To Ennoble Our National Character

Democracies are unabashedly commercial and practical. This is probably as it should be. It is futile to demand that creative curiosity be the hallmark of democracies, or to imagine that the modern…

Chandana Ukwatte Chandana Ukwatte on 11/15/201111/14/2011

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