ive to twentieth-century problems.
Blum also finds that the political thought expressed by Lippmann throughout his career derived from his broadside against democratic theory and the functioning of American democracy. He launched this battle in the 1920s and revised it throughout his career. Lippmann railed against what he saw as "the antiquated and constraining theoretical apparatus of popular government in the United States," and he stated that it was "rooted in a ludicrous vision of small and self-contained communities." he believed that traditional democratic ideas were not up to the challenge of the new era that developed first before World War I and then further between the two world wars. Lippmann rightly saw the world as becoming more interdependent in the twentieth century than it had been in the nineteenth, and as transportation and communication caused the world to "shrink," this fact was emphasized more and more. Events half-way across the globe now affected America directly as they did not in earlier times, and Lippmann believed that the American p
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