Everything Wrong With Democracy With Joanna Williams

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On 19 April, In this episode of Encounters, Institute of Public Affairs Senior Fellow John Roskam speaks to author, Joanna Williams, about the challenges modern democracies face as power no longer lies in just elected government, but also, with unelected elites.

Joanna Williams is a prolific writer for spiked! Online and major news outlets around the world. Joanna is also the author of How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason.

Joanna spent a number of years as an academic and is now the founder of her own think tank, Cieo, which tackles the issues that universities and the media increasingly shy away from.

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