Listen to Peter’s engaging conversation with Stephen Hurley on the state of western democracy, leadership, citizenship and civil society in the aftermath of COVID-19, the global protests for racial justice and the problem of democratic backsliding in liberal…
Greetings from Section 1 in this deeply uncertain, destabilizing time. The pandemic has, if nothing else, exposed the cracks in our political economy and put into question many of the core principles on which our way of life – particularly in the west – is…
Why “SECTION 1”? Because liberal constitutional democracy is everywhere under siege. Because the values that underpin freedom and democracy are being undermined or repudiated outright in so-called democratic societies throughout the world. Because, as so many…
