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Using the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both the still left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand test in democracy was arriving to an end, and this Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel, It Can't Happen Here, written during the dark days and nights of the 1930s, could finally be arriving true. Is the democratic independence that the United States symbolizes really secure? Can authoritarianism happen in America? Acclaimed legal scholar, Harvard Professor, and New York Times best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein queried many of the nation's leading thinkers. In such a thought-provoking assortment of essays, these recognized thinkers and theorists explore the lessons of background, how democracies crumble, how propaganda works, and the role of the multimedia, courts, elections, and "fake reports" in the modern political landscaping - and what the future of the United States may hold. Contributors include:
- Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law School
- Eric Posner, laws teacher at the University of Chicago Law School
- Tyler Cowen, economics teacher at George Mason University
- Timur Kuran, economics and political science teacher at Duke University
- Noah Feldman, teacher of laws at Harvard Law School
- Jonathan Haidt, public psychologist and Professor of Ethical Management at New York University's Stern College of Business
- Jack Goldsmith, Professor at Harvard Law College, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Establishment, and co-founder of Lawfare
- Stephen Holmes, Professor of Law at New York University
- Jon Elster, Professor of the Social Sciences at Columbia University
- Thomas Ginsburg, Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Knowledge at the University of Chicago and a member of the North american Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University
- Duncan W, sociologist and main researcher at Microsoft Research
