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Melvin Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy.
Many say that despite Trump, our democracy is strong. But John Dewey cautioned that institutions alone won't save us.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest book is his clearest expression yet of political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.
To be useful, history has to help us think about who we should become as a nation.
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