Answering your questions about democracy
Is the United States really a democracy? What will the EU look like in 50 years? What should 2020 candidates be doing to demonstrate civility? Those are just a few of the questions we received from Democracy Works listeners around the country and around the world. We close our third season by answering some of your questions about democracy and the topics we’ve covered on the show.
We’ll be on summer break for the next few weeks. New episodes resume August 12. In the meantime, we’ll be rebroadcasting some of our older episodes you might have missed and sharing episodes from other podcasts we think you’ll enjoy.
Additional InformationThe Market as Prison article by Charles Lindblum – for more on the relationship between democracy and plutocracy
Books we recommend reading this summer:
- Uncivil Agreement by Lilliana Mason
- The Last Palace by Norman Eisen
- In the Ruins of Neoliberalism by Wendy Brown
- Truth in Our Times by David McCraw
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