Deliberation Can Save Democracy

Deliberation Can Save Democracy

(Photo by Jason Liu.)This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is proudly part of the Persuasion family.Democracy is under siege, both in the great global conflict of ideas and in the lived experience of people around the world. We are grappling with a democratic recession—a pull-back in the number of countries that fulfill accepted standards for the practices of par…