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American democracy cannot survive without well-functioning schools that enable students to become good citizens and that teach them to appreciate what it means to live under a system whose only boss are the people themselves. That’s the claim my guest Brook Manville makes in his new book, The Civic Bargain – How Democracies Survive. In this wide-ranging conversation about civic education, Manville says schools must cultivate “civic friendship,” one of seven conditions that have be...

