Season 4 Trailer: The Land That Never Has Been Yet

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Our season-long series will touch on concerns like authoritarianism, voter suppression and gerrymandering, foreign intervention, and the role of money in politics, but we’ll go much deeper, effectively retelling the story of the United States from its beginnings up to the present. Through field recordings and interviews with leading thinkers, we’ll tell under-told stories and explore critical questions like—How democratic was the U.S. ever meant to be, anyway? American democracy is clearly in crisis today, but . . . when was it not?Along the way, there’s a good chance that we’ll complicate, maybe upend, our listeners’ understanding of American history.

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0:00.0	The future about democracy is at stake.
0:02.9	One of the biggest threats facing our democracy.
0:05.8	What is at stake in all of this is nothing less than our democracy.
0:15.4	Our democracy.
0:17.9	This is John B. Wynn, producer and host of Scene on Radio.
0:21.5	I don't know about you, but I've thrown that D word around all my life
0:26.4	without thinking deeply about what it means.
0:30.0	Or about our version of it.
0:32.1	What American democracy is and what it isn't.
0:36.4	For that matter, how democratic was the United States of America ever meant to be?
0:43.0	They are protesting the British, but they do not want independence.
0:49.1	Really what they want is conservative.
0:51.3	That is they want to.
0:52.2	Looking at this declaration now, it is chiefly memorable for the promises it made.
0:57.7	Mighty words.
0:58.8	Fit lesson for mankind.
1:00.4	Violence is part of the system that is America.
1:03.9	It's part of the DNA.
1:05.3	It's not a bug.
1:06.5	And so there are myriad ways that slaveholders were able to disenfranchise poor whites,
1:11.2	but the ones that they didn't disenfranchise,
1:14.0	they basically just gathered up on election day.
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