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Grab a Dictionary, Save the Republic
A new book the author calls “an owner’s manual for American citizens” recovers a lost language that Americans need to talk with each other about things that matter.
May 23, 2021 •
David Kidd/ Governing
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Distressed at the dearth of civic understanding in the United States, Ed Hagenstein worked for over two decades to create
The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary. Its purpose is simple: the constitution demands consensus and our form of government requires discourse, which depends in turn on a precise and nuanced vocabulary of its own. Hagenstein has set out to recover 101 words that are essential to the American experiment, many largely lost to disuse or misuse.