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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Welcome to the End of Democracy
Description: Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies.
"We may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic, but be ruled by a technocratic class empowered by greater powers of surveillance than those enjoyed by even the noisiest of dictatorships.”
Those words were written by Joel Kotkin in a recently published essay on democracy’s demise. Donald Trump is not the villain of the piece, as most pundits want us to believe, nor other populists outside the United States. Rather, Kotkin argues that the withering of demo...