Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 2025-09-01 · 71 min · 10,665 words

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. You probably know, just if you're a human being, much less if you listen to Mindscape, that the status of democracy in the world today is troubled. We have threats against democracy, we have arguments being made quite explicitly that democracy is falling short in one way or another.

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