
Episode #11
Amid chaos, reason for hope
<p><br/></p><p>With many believing U.S. democracy is in peril, Brookings Senior Fellow Darrell M. West offers a more optimistic outlook.</p><p>It’s not that West, a former director of Brown University’s Taubman Center, doesn’t see that democracy may be in jeopardy, but he is confident that mainly younger voters are recognizing the dangers.</p><p>We talked with West, trying to make sense of the chaos. In this podcast, West talks about a political atmosphere, maybe best described by former President Bill Clinton, as “politics of personal destruction.” </p><p>Our conversation ranges from...






