Though we talk a lot about government transparency today, Americans didn’t always expect it of their leaders, according to Stefanos Geroulanos.

“Transparency as we understand it today really is a very novel invention,” says Geroulanos, associate professor of European intellectual history at New York University, who explains the origins of the political buzzword in this video:

Source: New York University

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