President Joe Biden to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Sandel has had an impact. His talks fill theaters and his ideas on how to resolve the uncomfortable coexistence between capitalism and democracy are at the center of the debate in which Western social democracy is immersed. Today, Sandel - who was born in Minneapolis in 1953 - is the closest thing to a rock star in the world of philosophy. Now, when we look back at it, we can see that it had premonitory overtones. The professor collected this discomfort in Democracy’s Discontent (1996), which soon became a classic. He could hear that many people were rejecting the project of globalization, which was pushed by the elites. Just beneath that layer of prosperity and euphoria that followed the end of the Cold War, he found a buzz of anxiety. Sandel scratched through the golden surface of the 1990s. Almost 30 years ago, Harvard professor Michael J.
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