Vera Eidelman's guest appearances

Vera Eidelman

CounterSpin

Then & Now

Kent Wong

Donald Trump

Peter Beinart

Murtaza Hussain

David Cole

James Loewen

Adam Winkler

Shahid Buttar

Alan Greenspan

David Cay Johnston

Mike Murphy

Franita Tolson

Ralph Nader

Ari Berman

Elisabeth Rosenthal

OwlTail

Vivek Shandas

How do we protect our society from campaigns to stop people from voting or speaking or going into the street to protest things that are wrong? The post Vera Eidelman on Fourth of July Freedoms, Vivek Shandas on Addressing Climate Change appeared first on FAIR.

How do we protect our society from campaigns to stop people from voting or speaking or going into the street to protest things that are wrong? The post <a href="https://fair.org/home/vera-eidelman-on-fourth-of-july-freedoms-vivek-shandas-on-addressing-climate-change/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vera Eidelman on Fourth of July Freedoms, Vivek Shandas on Addressing Climate Change</a> appeared first on <a href="https://fair.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FAIR</a>.

Vera Eidelman on Fourth of July Freedoms, Vivek Shandas on Addressing Climate Change

Samuel Moyn

In the wake of the unprecedented election of President Donald Trump, and now punctuated by the COVID-19 pandemic and summer of protests, many scholars and public figures have argued that the U.S. is descending into autocracy. Following the recent violent intervention of federal law enforcement officers in Portland, concerns about the state of America’s democracy have grown.Samuel Moyn, historian and Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, and Vera Eidelman, staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, join Then &amp; Now to explore the utility of historical analogies, President Trump’s role in the trajectory of American history, and the state of American democracy today.

In the wake of the unprecedented election of President Donald Trump, and now punctuated by the COVID-19 pandemic and summer of protests, many scholars and public figures have <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">argued</a> that the U.S. is descending into autocracy. Following the recent violent intervention of federal law enforcement officers in Portland, concerns about the state of America’s democracy have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/opinion/portland-protests-trump.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">grown</a>.Samuel Moyn, historian and Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, and Vera Eidelman, staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, join Then &amp; Now to explore the utility of historical analogies, President Trump’s role in the trajectory of American history, and the state of American democracy today.

Is the U.S. Entering an Authoritarian Era? A Conversation with Samuel Moyn and Vera Eidelman