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Back to Basics
Disenchantment with liberal democracy has confronted it with an existential danger. But while the problem has been richly described, few tangible solutions have emerged to reverse the alienation voters feel from their elected leaders and institutions. What is the answer, or answers?
The Cost of Inequality
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both," said Louis Brandeis, a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Was he right? Can economic inequality be tempered without discouraging innovation and entrepreneurship?
We and Them
Far from diminishing, ethnic, national and religious tribalism is on the rise, feeding intolerance, exclusion, populism and conflict. Why are the ideals of multiculturalism and inclusion so elusive, and so often held in disdain?
Reinventing Democracy Panel
Democracy has a duty to learn from its past mistakes; to mature it must adapt and change. But do we have the capacity to do that?
What is Our Human Obligation?
As political, economic and social crises test the
underlying foundations of liberal democratic
societies, can art and other forms of creative
expression help to inspire social and political
engagement?
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