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But I also see why people think he might: He’s speaking to grievances that are real, measurable and decades in the making.

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Our critic said the show is “less celebration of a revolution than a redress of grievances.”

The revolution’s greatest hits are all here, from petitioning the king of England for a redress of grievances to a Declaration of Independence.

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As directed by Mr. Burns and frequent collaborators Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” is also less a celebration of a revolution than a redress of grievances.

By turning caste into a ledger of entitlements and grievances, the census reduces politics to arithmetic - who gets how much - rather than addressing what Mr Teltumbde calls the "architecture of social injustice".

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