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Why our politics generates too much heat and very little light

Beyond the veneer of agitation to get the job done, our politics is largely transactional. [Courtesy]

“We live in a contaminated moral environment,” declared Vaclav Havel the playwright President of the Czech Republic in a thundering speech delivered on New Year in 1989 to his compatriots to mark the end of the Communist hegemony in Europe.

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