Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West West's portrait gallery of failure - detailing our inadequate party duopoly, corporate excesses, and limp courtier journalism, as well as Washington's imperial arrogance and bungling in the Middle East - illustrates his vital argument: that American democracy is at risk and that its restoration does indeed matter. - Kevin Phillips
Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred by John Lukas Sept. 11, 2001 ... the true historical import of what happened on that day may turn out to be that it tipped America's priorities decisively away from the work of healing itself by restoring the integrity and vitality of its own democracy, and toward installing quasi-democracy in unlikely places under the shadow of its military might. - Owen Harries
