Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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The Global Crisis of Liberal Democracy with Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond, democracy scholar, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad in 2004 and author of Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (Penguin Press, 2019), looks at the global and domestic threats to the principles of liberal democracy.