Why have voters lost faith in democracy? Nick Spencer interviews Jonathan Sumption for The Tablet to get to the root of the issue. 03/04/2025
Mistrust and contempt for democratic politics are growing in the West. A former Supreme Court justice tells Nick Spencer that the roots of the problem lie deep in culture, history and psychology.
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Nick Spencer
Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.
Posted 3 April 2025
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