Paul W. Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, Yale Law School, author of Democracy in Our America, Yale University Press; Joseph Weiler, University Professor at NYU Law School and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. Video intervention from the United States by Maurizio Molinari, Director of La Repubblica. Introduced by Mattia Ferraresi, Chief Editor of Domani

American democracy seems to be going through a phase of crisis, marked by the polarization of political discourse, the difficulty of finding areas for dialogue, and even the legitimization of violence as a method for resolving social conflicts. The root of these pathologies does not lie only in the inadequacy of the ruling class or in a general disaffection of citizens for the debate. Feeding the wound is the disengagement from the places that form the fabric of civic life. The thinning out of participation transforms a community of people into aggregates of solitary and uprooted individuals, thus exposed to the false promises of ideology and the noise of propaganda.