Shadi Hamid, Writer at The Atlantic, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Mikhail Shishkin, Russian writer and journalist, winner of the Russian Booker, Russian National Bestseller, Big Book, and European Strega Prize 2022. Moderated by Mattia Ferraresi, Editor-in-Chief of Domani.

Liberal democracy is under attack. It is not only external enemies such as despots and illiberal autocrats who threaten it, but also the internal contradictions of the system, which are becoming increasingly evident. The model that seemed to be the inevitable destiny of every civilization after the Cold War is now on trial. The deepest accusation is that liberal democracy places a partial conception of human freedom at the center of its universe.