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Democracy’s Concrete Court
The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park....
Mark Edmundson
Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia. His newest book is The Heart of the Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching.
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