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Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI); Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL); ePluribus Stanford Initiative; Freeman Spogli Institution for International Studies; Hoover Institution; Stanford Center for Law and History; Stanford Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) Program; Stanford Constitutional Law Center; Stanford Journalism Program; Stanford Civics Initiative; Stanford Constitutional Law Center
This six-part series, hosted by Dean Debra Satz and Professor Larry Diamond, brings together leading Stanford scholars to help us understand the moment: from the questions we’re asking ourselves about democratic decline to the ideas we have for democratic resilience and restoration.
SCHEDULE & SPEAKERS
Session 1: Democracy in Crisis?
October 7, 2025
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- Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Director of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
Session 2: Constitutional Crisis?
October 14, 2025
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- Bernadette Meyler, Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life and Professor, by courtesy, of English and of Comparative Literature
- Jud Campbell, Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School
- Fred O. Smith, Jr., Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Session 3: Media in Crisis?
October 21, 2025
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- James T. Hamilton, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Hearst Professor of Communication Director, Stanford Journalism Program
- Janine Zacharia, Lecturer, Communication
Session 4: Restoring Our Political Parties
October 28, 2025
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- Didi Kuo, Center Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies
Session 5: Restoring the Civic Purpose of Higher Education
November 4, 2025
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- Dan Edelstein, William H. Bonsall Professor of French and Professor, by courtesy, of History and of Political Science
- YuQing Jiang, ePluribus Postgraduate Fellow and former President of Stanford Political Union
- Jeannette Wang, Newman Civic Fellow and former Chair of Stanford Democracy Day
Session 6: Restoring Faith in Our American Institutions
November 11, 2025
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- Condoleezza Rice, Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy
SERIES HOSTS:
Larry Diamond is William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. His research focuses on global trends affecting freedom and democracy, and US and international policies to advance democracy and counter authoritarian influence. He was the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, and he remains a consultant to the National Endowment for Democracy. Among his books is Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency. His new co-edited book (with Sumit Ganguly and Dinsha Mistree) is The Troubling State of India’s Democracy.
Debra Satz serves as Stanford University’s Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society. From 2008-2014, she also served as the faculty director of the Bowen McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Her research focuses on the meaning of equality and the role of markets in a democratic society. Among her many notable publications and teaching accomplishments, Satz recently co-authored Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy (2016); received the Walter J. Gores Award (2004), Stanford’s highest teaching honor; was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018); and piloted and co-led a new widely-attended course on “Democracy and Disagreement.”