The Next Democracy | White Oak Interviews
In early spring, the Brennan Center hosted The Next Democracy—a conference at the White Oak Conservation Center that brought together a distinguished group from law, academia, advocacy, philanthropy, government and media for two days of conversation and reflection. The aim was to spark fresh thinking from across communities and disciplines, with hopes of crafting a new vision of democracy and a strategy for realizing it.
Participants included Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker, Sean Wilentz of Princeton University, Elaine Kamarck of the Kennedy School of Government, Ann Beeson of Open Society Institute, Barbara Arnwine of Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Chris Edley of UC Berkeley School of Law, amongst others.
The Brennan Center conducted the following four interviews between sessions. These are the first videos in a series of three to be posted to the Brennan Center site. Click on a name below to skip to that interview.
Round One | Round Two
Barbara Arnwine | Matt Yglesias | Dahlia Lithwick | Prof. Goodwin Liu
Barbara Arnwine
Barbara Arnwine, a prominent leader in the civil rights community, is the Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She is internationally renowned for contributions on critical justice issues including the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991. Arnwine discusses the economic divide, the new president, as well as the Progressive agenda in the following segment.
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Matt Yglesias
Matt Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress and blogger at Think Progress. Yglesias has previously worked as an Associate Editor at The Atlantic, a Staff Writer at The American Prospect, and an Associate Editor at Talking Points Memo.Yglesias discusses campaign finance, the Bush legacy and new media in the following interview.
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Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, writes the "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns. She is a biweekly columnist for Newsweek. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, The Washington Post, and Commentary, among other places. Lithwick discusses judicial selection, judicial elections, Caperton, as well as progressive jurisprudence in the following segment.
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Prof. Goodwin Liu
Goodwin Liu is an Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. His forthcoming book, Keeping Faith with the Constitution (with Pamela Karlan and Christopher Schroeder), offers an account of constitutional interpretation that explains and defends the most important constitutional achievements of the American people while exposing the shortcomings of originalism and strict construction. Prof. Liu discusses the idea of deliberative democracy as well as progressive jurisprudence in this interview.
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