The Agonist with Shadi Hamid

The Agonist with Shadi Hamid

All Good Things...

If good things don't necessarily go together, would it be better if they did?

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Shadi Hamid
Oct 22, 2022
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One should, in theory, be able to do two things at once: to recognize that democracy, which is good, may produce outcomes that are not. Good things do not necessarily go together. At some basic level, it wouldn't be right for good things to go together too much. Would it even be just? If good were layered on top of good, there would be no real sense of …

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