“Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in pursuit of the common good…”

Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in pursuit of the common good, if they want to survive onslaughts from without, demoralization from within and maintain robust freedom.

Yehudah Mirsky, “Condemning Fanaticism is the Easy Part”, The Times of Israel (17 January 2016) [http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/condemning-fanaticism-is-the-easy-part/]