Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992
Undemocratic Vistas
By Garry Wills
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy
by George F. Will
Free Press, 260 pp., $19.95
Democracy, Chesterton said, is like blowing your nose—you may not do it well, but you ought to do it yourself. George Will (with many others) has decided that Americans blow their noses so abominably that we must snatch away their handkerchiefs this instant. If the American people continue sending bozos back to Congress, then the power to do so must be taken from them.
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