Join the National Constitution Center, in partnership with the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, for a discussion on how to “restore the guardrails” of democracy—or ways to strengthen American constitutional democracy, structurally and normatively, against future threats and insurrections. Leading commentators Anne Applebaum, SNF Agora Senior Fellow, Pulitzer-prize winning historian, and staff writer for The Atlantic; Daniel Ziblatt, political scientist and a professor at Harvard University and co-author of How Democracies Die; Pulitzer-prize winning journalist George Will; and political scientist William Allen, will join moderator Jeffrey Rosen for a wide-ranging conversation.
The America of the early republic was built on a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could learn from its past to secure its future. Join Joanne Freeman, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and of American Studies at Yale University, Robert McDonald, professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia—all contributors to the new volume Revolutionary Prophecies: The Founders and America’s Future—to discuss the diverse cast of characters that founded the nation, and how their vision for the country’s future shaped American history.
In this Fun Friday Session, David French, senior editor at The Dispatch, joins us for a discussion on the First Amendment freedoms of Speech and the Press.
LISTEN to a weekly show of constitutional debate hosted by Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen by searching for We the People in your favorite podcast app.
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