Originally Published in Madras Courier
Editorial Note
The United States Of America has regressed into a deeply divided society, so corporate graft is left unnoticed and unchallenged.
In the annals of human history, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in 1863 assumed a pivotal role in the spread of democracies across the world. A century ago, the defining slogan of the French Revolution—liberte, egalite and fraternite—as popularised by Maximilien Robespierre, was a clarion call that encapsulated the existential need to abolish monarchies.