Is Democracy Dying?

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🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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With authoritarianism and populism on the rise around the world, The Atlantic examines the fate of democracy in its October issue. Anne Applebaum writes that Poland shows how quickly things can fall apart and Jeffrey Rosen writes that the state of American politics is one Founder’s worst nightmare. They join Jeffrey Goldberg and Alex Wagner to discuss this precarious moment in history. Links - “Is Democracy Dying?” (October 2018 Issue) - “America Is Living James Madison’s Nightmare” (Jeffrey Rosen, October 2018) - “A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come” (Anne Applebaum, October 2018) - “The Threat of Tribalism” (Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, October 2018) - “Americans Aren’t Practicing Democracy Anymore” (Yoni Appelbaum, October 2018) - “Twitter’s Flawed Solution to Political Polarization” (Christopher A. Bail, New York Times, September 8, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Democracy around the world faces a set of unique threats.
0:03.0	authoritarianism is spreading, corruption is festering,
0:06.0	and the worst could be yet to come.
0:08.0	Today we've gathered some preeminent thinkers
0:10.0	to discuss one important question.
0:12.0	Is democracy dying? thinkers to discuss one important question. Is Democracy Dying. This is Radio Atlantic. So welcome everybody.
0:33.7	This is Jeff Goldberg. I'm the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic and I'm here with
0:37.9	my colleague Alex Wagner. Oh it's so good to be in the same room with you Jeff.
0:42.4	We're doing this. We're doing be in the same room with you, Jeff.
0:43.0	Good that we're doing this in the same room for once, not in different cities,
0:46.0	highly unusual.
0:47.0	It's unusual.
0:48.0	And then we have people in other cities that I'm going to introduce.
0:50.0	It's very exciting, we have multiple cities.
0:52.0	Very globalist. We'll get to that.
0:55.0	We have Jeffrey Rosen, the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
1:00.0	Wop, Wop! That was very good. That's the theme music to his podcast, We was very good.
1:02.6	That's the theme music to his podcast, We The People, by the way.
1:05.2	That usually has an airborne intro, doesn't it?
1:07.3	There's an air.
1:08.3	Bum, bum, bum, bum.
1:10.3	Oh, wait, we're gonna have singing today. And in London, we're going to have singing today.
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