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Melvin L. Rogers is associate professor of political science and associate director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University. He is the author of The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought and The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy.