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In a recent speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, author and educator Parker Palmer discusses America's democratic experiment -- how rash decision-making undercuts what the Founding Fathers set out to create, and how important tension is for the practice of democracy.

In a recent speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, author and educator Parker Palmer discusses America's democratic experiment: how rash decision-making undercuts what the founding fathers set out to create and how important tension is for the practice of democracy.

Parker Palmer on the democratic experiment

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