21
July 2016
Past Event
Are Plutocrats Drowning Our Republic?

Are Plutocrats Drowning Our Republic?

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
July 21, 2016
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July 2016
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1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

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Speakers:
Charles Davidson

Former Executive Director, Kleptocracy Initiative

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Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Tyler Cowen

Editorial Board Member, The American Interest; Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics, George Mason University; and Co-Author, Marginal Revolution

Adam Garfinkle

Founding Editor, The American Interest

Nils Gilman

Associate Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley

Kurt Volker

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Executive Director, McCain Institute for International Leadership

Jeffrey Winters

Professor of Political Science and Founder & Director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) Program, Northwestern University

The American Interest presented a reexamination of the question: are plutocrats drowning our republic? On July 21, Charles Davidson, Francis Fukuyama, Walter Russell Mead, Tyler Cowen, Adam Garfinkle, Nils Gilman, Kurt Volker, and Jeffrey Winters reflected on the state of liberal democracy, the spread of populism, and blue model decay.

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