Jon Margolis is a long-time columnist and was a national political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He is also an author of several books including The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964. In this lecture he cautions that while it is always wise to be wary of doomsayers who insist things are different this time, there are credible scholars who worry that democracy, as we understand it, may be outmoded. Things are happening that support their concerns, and not just in America.
