1.0 link 42109 <![CDATA[Silence and the Public Sphere]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-meserole/silence-and-the-public-sp_b_42109.html The great irony of American public life today is this: never before have we so fully democratized political speech, yet never before have we so thoroughly misunderstood the nature and meaning of political silence.

To see what I mean, we need to pause for a moment to look at silence and authority in general. Up until two generations ago -- when it was still plausible for a democratic nation-state to claim a divine sanction or absolute sovereignty -- silence always related...

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