Is American Democracy in Crisis? - The Munk Debates

The twenty-first semi-annual Munk Debate pits award-winning journalist E. J. Dionne, Jr. and influential author and blogger Andrew Sullivan against former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and bestselling author and editor Kimberley Strassel to debate the current crisis of American democracy.

"Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes." - E. J. Dionne, Jr.

It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating a crisis of American democracy? For some the answer is an emphatic "yes." Trump's disregard for the institutions and political norms of U.S. democracy is imperiling the Republic. The sooner his presidency collapses the sooner the healing can begin and the ship of state righted. For others Trump is not the villain in this drama. Rather, his young presidency is the conduit, not the cause, of Americans' deep-seated anger towards a privileged and self-dealing Washington elite. Trump's disruption of politics as usual is what America needs to start the process of restoring democracy by the people, for the people.

Info autore

E. J. DIONNE, JR. is an award-winning journalist and political commentator who appears regularly on MSNBC, NPR's All Things Considered, and ABC News' This Week. He is currently a William F. Bloomberg Visiting Professor at Harvard University, with a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dionne is also a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University.

Riassunto

The twenty-first semi-annual Munk Debate, held on October 12th, 2017, pits award-winning journalist E. J. Dionne, Jr. and influential author and blogger Andrew Sullivan against former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and bestselling author and editor Kimberley Strassel to debate the current crisis of American democracy.

Prefazione

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Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: E. J. Dionne, E.J. Dionne, E.J. Jr. Dionne, Jr. E. J. Dionne, E.J. Dionne Jr., Newt Gingrich, Gingrich Newt, Kimberley Strassel, Strassel Kimberley, Andrew Sullivan, Sullivan Andrew
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781487004514
• ISBN: 978-1-4870-0451-4
• Pagine: 128
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 203 mm x 7 mm
• Peso: 140 g
• Illustrazioni: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Serie: Munk Debates
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Central government