S1E2 - Larry Diamond, Ph.D - Hoover/Stanford - Saving Democracy

Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy. At Stanford University, he is professor by courtesy of political science and sociology, and he coordinates the democracy program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). (stanford.edu)

In our Grey Matter with Michael Krasny conversation, Larry Diamond reflects on the "democratic recession" that began circa 2006-2007 (after an exhilarating expansion of democracy in the 1990's) with a global trend towards polarization that fed a resurgence of autocratic rulers around the world. He comments on the implications of this for our collective personal freedoms, and proposes several realistic adjustments to the American system of governance that would reinstate the voice of moderates and preserve the American republic as a beacon of liberty.

Conversation recorded on June 18, 2022.