Weeds of Democracy in the Garden of Fascism


This is the one hundred and fifty-eighth episode of Public Interest Podcast with Professor Daniel Brumberg, Director of Democracy and Governance Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Fellow at Project on Middle East Democracy, Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in Paris, and consultant to the US Department of State and USAID who speaks about the universality of human rights across societies and cultures. Professor Brumberg discusses how political entrepreneurs have worked to nurture democracy, freedom, and liberalism often in repressive environments underneath authoritarian governments in the Middle East.