Contrasting Truths: The Aspirations and Limitations of American Democracy

This essay, published in T’ruah’s thought leadership journal Fragments, explores the origins, aspirations, and limitations of both liberal democracy as a concept and American democracy as a tangible manifestation. It argues for a dialectical approach to our current challenges — ie. accepting that democracy is both the fairest, most inherently just system of governance currently available, and that it's also capable of producing and tolerating great injustice.

The full issue of Fragments is available for download at this link.

For a copy of just Aaron and Sofi's piece, please email info@jewishdemocracy.org.