This coming Tuesday, Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in New York City is bringing together an array of prominent experts — including Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Jeff Katko (R-NY) — for a Summit on Democracy to discuss the crisis in U.S. democracy and the impact of technology-driven misinformation.
I’ll be presenting on the work we’ll be doing at Nationhood Lab, the project I’m founding at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, which aims to contribute to the defense of our liberal democracy against a building authoritarian threat. My panel presentation kicks off at 9:45 am, alongside a pollster and a political scientist who are releasing the results of a Cornell national survey of voters. The event is open to the public and you’ll find registration information here.
Other speakers include Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize winning staff writer at The Atlantic; the German Marshall Fund’s Karen Kornbluh, former U.S. Ambassador to the OECD, Mark Zuckerman, president of the Century Foundation, and Cornell-IOPGA director, former Rep. Steve Israel.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.