Last night, the panelists joined a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic discuss the state of democracy 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, and the successes and challenges of the American experiment.
Compared to the nation’s founding 250 years ago, today’s United States appears to be in an “intellectual crisis,” says Tim Alberta, a staff writer at Atlantiche argued. “You have people who no longer share a living reality, or no longer work from a common ground of truth and information.” What’s even more surprising, Alberta continued, is how people “have come to the conclusion that no one is looking out for them, that no one cares more in mind, that no one can be trusted.”
Connect with the editor-in-chief of AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, in this discussion about the nation’s 250th anniversary: Alberta; Stephen Hayes, editor of Casting; Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent New York Times; Idrees Kahloon staff writer at Atlantic; Susan Glasser staff writer at The New Yorker; Ashley Parker staff writer at Atlantic.
Watch the full episode, “America: The Next 250,” here.
