Insurrection Special: What Is Democracy?
Wednesday Jan 5, 2022 @ 1:30 PM
The eve of the first anniversary of the shocking attack on the U.S. Capitol is a good time to see Astra Taylor‘s thought-provoking documentary, What Is Democracy?, a philosophical journey which takes us from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor. (2018, cc, 107 minutes.) Co-sponsored by Public Affairs Forum