Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2026
Abstract
Something broke in America around 1970. The persistence of Jim Crow had given the lie to America’s promise of equality under the law. The environmental movement burst onto the scene with a blistering indictment of the wanton destruction of the natural world, the befouling of the air and of waterways, and the indiscriminate use of DDT. Urban planners recklessly destroyed neighborhoods in the name of redevelopment and rammed highways through Black communities. Lies and half-truths served to justify sending tens of thousands of young men to their deaths in Vietnam.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Bagley, Nicholas. "On Procedures and Democracy." In Democracy's Challenges: 100 Ideas, edited by Bauer, Bob, Richard Pildes, Rosa Po, and Samuel Issacharoff, 105-107. New York City, New York: NYU Press, 2026.
Comments
This Book Chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Democracy’s Challenges: 100 Ideas © 2026 NYU Press