...increases the number of opinions that then confront each other and must be compared.)"

--Simone Pétrement,
in SIMONE WEIL: A LIFE,
1973,
transl. Raymond Rosenthal, 1976

5/5

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As both a political agent and a student of history, I think it is fair to say the U.S. has entered its seventh "party system." The Republican party is something fundamentally different than what it was a decade ago. And the Democratic party is... also there.

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