Abstract
AbstractThis essay reviews five books that challenge established modern assumptions about the nature and necessity of privacy, transparency, and the secret, and, in doing so, raise more general questions about the longstanding belief in the Enlightenment tradition that secrecy is a tool of conspiracy and therefore inimical to democracy.At a moment when old assumptions about privacy and transparency are falling away, perhaps it is time, these books imply, to think about the positive value of secret-keeping.
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