Friday 3 May 2019

THINGS FALL APART: America and Liberal Democracy

Ideas at 9 pm Friday May 10th. 

James Kloppenberg, professor of history at Harvard University, traces the long and tortuous tradition of American liberal democracy. He argues the United States has arrived at such a precarious place in its political evolution that the very underlying culture that makes democracy possible is under threat. Kloppenberg says unless Americans are willing to move away from destructive tendencies like self-righteousness and dogmatism, then democracy itself may never recover.

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