Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.

The Ideal City, attributed to Fra Carnevale, c. 1482. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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Olivier Zunz
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. More