Tag: The Markaz Review

The Markaz Review Publishes a Look at the Current State of American Democracy by an Exiled Ex-American

What is American democracy today, but a dried, empty chrysalis after the butterfly has departed? At bottom, democracy is just a means to an end and that end, according to Thomas Jefferson in the American Declaration of Independence, is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The Markaz, a laudable NGO that promotes understanding between the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian worlds, features in their monthly Markaz Review, a piece on the current state of American democracy, written from a long way off. Here it is: https://themarkaz.org/january-6th-and-the-free-fall-of-u-s-democracy/?fbclid=IwAR2MyUmQI02gaSo2LdrxI1fipeRtIWYiZd-3GCYshGPrji1eHZMVcR3OFEo (Click on the headline in the box that appears.)