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Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions

Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions

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Nowhere is this interplay of darkness and light more nuanced, nor more prescient, than in Cohen’s song “Democracy.”

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Western world was ablaze with the euphoria of a blind faith that democracy was coming to the East. I was there — that’s not what happened.

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