Editorial: How and Why?

• The select excerpts from this rather large book are selected to focus on a particular topic of importance in our times e.g. Democracy. Everyone east to west talk and brag about Democratic ideals and yet no one actually knows what Democracy was, its inception in Europe, its many shapes and compromises and of course its many faults and foulness. 
• I will add my own thoughts between these excerpts and tag them in a distinct fashion to preserve the authors original writings.