A Two-Legged Stool by David L. Tubbs

A Two-Legged Stool

Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate
by Ronald Dworkin
Princeton University Press, 2006
(192 pages, $19.95, hardcover)

reviewed by David L. Tubbs

How significant are the “culture wars” for American politics? In Is Democracy Possible Here?, the distinguished legal scholar Ronald Dworkin contests the idea that a “comprehensive and unbridgeable cultural gap” now defines our political life.

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