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DESCRIPTION:Join The New Republic for a livestream of TNR Live: Democracy in Peril. Can 
 liberal democracy survive? The evening's conversation will be moderated by 
 TNR editor, Michael Tomasky.\n\nPANEL\n--Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian, 
 author\n--David Rieff, journalist, author\n--Barbara Walter, professor, 
 author\n\nDate and time: Wed, May 18, 2022 @ 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM 
 PDT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tnr-live-democracy-in-peril-tickets-324127041707\n\n\nRuth 
 Ben-Ghiat is a historian who writes about authoritarianism, democracy 
 protection, and propaganda. She is Professor of History and Italian Studies 
 at New York University, the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other 
 fellowships, and Advisor to Protect Democracy. She is an MSNBC columnist, a 
 regular contributor to CNN and The Washington Post, and provides live 
 commentary on CNN, MSNBC, and other networks. She publishes Lucid, a 
 newsletter on threats to democracy. Her latest book, Strongmen: Mussolini 
 to the Present (2020, paperback with new epilogue on Jan. 6, 2021), looks 
 at how illiberal leaders use propaganda, corruption, violence, and machismo 
 - and how they can be defeated.\n\n\nDavid Rieff is a New York-based 
 journalist and author. During the nineteen-nineties, he covered conflicts 
 in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and 
 Kosovo), and Central Asia. Rieff has written extensively about Iraq, and, 
 more recently, about Latin America. He is the author of eight books, 
 including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for 
 the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. He has published numerous articles in 
 The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall 
 Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais, The New Republic, World Affairs, 
 Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and other 
 publications. His book The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in 
 the 21st century was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2015. 
 Rieff’s latest book In Praise of Forgetting: the Irony of Historical 
 Memory was published in April 2016 by Yale University Press.\n\n\nBarbara 
 F. Walter is the Rohr Professor of International Affairs at the University 
 of California, San Diego. She is the New York Times bestselling author of 
 How Civil Wars Start and How To Stop Them, as well as numerous other books 
 on civil wars. Walter is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a 
 frequent guest on CNN, and an active consultant for the World Bank, the 
 United Nations, the Departments of Defense and State, and the January 6th 
 committee. When not doing research, she writes for the Washington Post, the 
 Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2012, she 
 founded the blog Political Violence @ a Glance (with Erica Chenoweth) which 
 sometimes beats out the Washington Post's Monkey Cage for Best Blog of the 
 Year. Her real passion, however, is to paint, draw, and do anything 
 involving art.\n\n\nMichael Tomasky is editor of The New Republic, a 
 longtime liberal writer, editor, and commentator. Most recently, he was a 
 columnist and editor at The Daily Beast and remains editor of Democracy: A 
 Journal of Ideas, a quarterly journal based in Washington, both positions 
 he’s held for around a decade. Before that, he was the first U.S. editor 
 of The Guardian as it expanded its American operations, and before that, 
 the editor of The American Prospect. He has contributed frequently to The 
 New York Review of Books and The New York Times. He is the author of five 
 books, most recently If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How 
 It Can Be Saved.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/05/14/18849666.php
SUMMARY:Democracy in Peril: Defeating Threats & Corruption to Help Democracy Survive
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/05/14/18849666.php
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