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Following his popular 2023 podcast series on saving democratic capitalism, the Financial Times’ chief economics commentator Martin Wolf is back with a new season exploring democracy’s year of peril: 2024.
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place in more than 50 countries, making this a pivotal year for democracy. But these polls come as populist, illiberal and far-right parties are either growing in support or consolidating gains they have already made.
In the first of this five-part series, Martin tells executive opinion editor Jonathan Derbyshire why he worries about the consequences for the future of democratic institutions.
He then speaks to Robert Kagan, a neoconservative scholar and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, about what a victory, or defeat, for Donald Trump might mean for the future of US democracy.
Episodes of Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril: 2024 will be published on Sundays starting June 2. Listen to the series below, or subscribe and listen to episodes on the FT News Briefing podcast – on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
You can listen to the full series of Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism and read transcripts of each episode here.
For Martin’s FT columns click here.
Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril: 2024
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