Mueller Offers a Lesson in the Power of Reason Over Passion

Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of the First World War, the journalist Walter Lippmann, then 32 years old, published an influential and disturbing critique of democracy and its future. The mood in the U.S. was anxious--about immigration, about race, about women, about the nation's role in the world, about civil liberties, about religion, even about science (the Scopes trial was a few years off).

Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of the First World War, the journalist Walter Lippmann, then 32 years old, published an influential and disturbing critique of democracy and its future. The mood in the U.S. was anxious--about immigration, about race, about women, about the nation's role in the world, about civil liberties, about religion, even about science (the Scopes trial was a few years off).