Book Talk: The Great Experiment with Yascha Mounk

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Join the SNF Agora Institute for a conversation with Yascha Mounk, author of the new book, The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure.

Mounk, an SNF Agora senior fellow and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, studies the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy. His new book looks specifically at the challenges facing diverse democracies and argues that creating a democracy that treats members of its many different ethnic or religious groups as equals is the greatest experiment of our time. For diverse democracies to thrive, he writes, we need to create a world in which ascriptive identities come to matter less, not because we ignore injustices but because we have succeeded in addressing them.

Mounk's talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.

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