Flashback: Walter Russell Mead and his Crystal Ball

In his post yesterday reflecting on Palm Sunday (worth reading), Walter Russell Mead links to a series of posts he did in early 2010, predicting ten trends for the next decade under the theme of the accelerating pace of change.  All are worth reading, but perhaps my favorite is number 4, which touches on themes of direct democracy.

Mead writes, "Generally speaking, the smaller a political unit, the less vexing democracy turns out to be."