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Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, FAS
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October 30, 2020, Opinion: "The implicit social contract underpinning democratic governments everywhere aims to ensure both the well-being of citizens and respect for their civil liberties, which include freedom of expression, assembly, and worship, as well as procedural fairness. These liberties are so fundamental to the functioning of modern democracies that political philosophers sometimes consider them to be “sacred values” that should not be subjected to comparisons or trade-offs." Read full Op-Ed on Project Syndicate
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