What’s So Good About Democracy?

We fight wars to defend it, vote to uphold it and pride ourselves upon it. But what’s so good about democracy?

In this wide ranging talk, Professor John Keane, author of “The Life and Death of Democracy”, discusses the history of an evolving ideal that continues to shape our world, from the Ancients through to today.

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