I'm Jordan Wilkie, WITF's democracy reporter. I've been following Daniel Zieblatt's work since 2018 when he and fellow Harvard professor Steven Levitsky released How Democracies Die. 

Earlier this year, Zieblatt and Levitsky released a new book, Tyranny of the Minority. In it, they apply lessons about democracy from across the centuries and around the world to our current political moment to explain why our political parties are so far apart on basic tenants of democratic governance. 

So I was thrilled when I heard Professor Zieblatt was coming to Harrisburg as part of a speaker series hosted by the nonprofit democracyFirst, and we had him visit our studio for a wide-ranging discussion on the current state of democracy in the U.S. 

Here's our conversation, lightly edited for clarity. 

I'm Jordan Wilkie, WITF's democracy reporter. I've been following Daniel Zieblatt's work since 2018 when he and fellow Harvard professor Steven Levitsky released How Democracies Die. 
Earlier this year, Zieblatt and Levitsky released a new book, Tyranny of the Minority. In it, they apply lessons about democracy from across the centuries and around the world to our current political moment to explain why our political parties are so far apart on basic tenants of democratic governance. 
So I was thrilled when I heard Professor Zieblatt was coming to Harrisburg as part of a speaker series hosted by the nonprofit democracyFirst, and we had him visit our studio for a wide-ranging discussion on the current state of democracy in the U.S. 
Here's our conversation, lightly edited for clarity.

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