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The hallmarks of liberal democracy are in decline as autocrats gain popularity and power. How did this happen – and what can we do about it? We sit down with Gerald Butts and Prof. Dietlind Stolle to talk about the biggest threats to democracy today and how we can defend against them. 
Featuring: 
Gerald Butts, BA’93, MA’96, Chairman, Eurasia Group 
Dietlind Stolle , James McGill Professor of Political Science at McGill University  
 
Recommendations: 
Want to dig deeper? We asked our guests to recommend some of their favourite resources on this topic. 

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder 
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt 
The Lives of Others dir. by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt  
Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know by Erica Chenoweth

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As sustainability challenges grow more complex and urgent, who will lead the search for solutions? In our season opener, we explore why meaningful progress requires collaboration across sectors, and how the future McGill Sustainability Park is poised to help lead the way.

Featuring:
Grégoire Baillargeon, BCL/ LLB’98, President, BMO Quebec
Rees Kassen, PhD’01, Academic Director, McGill Sustainability Park

Recommended Reading: Want to dig deeper? We asked our guests to recommend some of their favourite resources on this topic:
Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now_ by John Doerr
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet_ by Hannah Ritchie
What We Owe the Future_ by William MacAskill
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future_ by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway

To stream previous episodes and learn more about McGill, visit the McGill News website.

Health policy expert Amélie Quésnel-Vallée explains why health care in Canada feels like it is eroding, how we can make it more accessible and equitable, and why we should still be proud of our national health care system despite its challenges.

Political Science professor Catherine Lu explores how we might reimagine foundational concepts such as freedom, human rights and global justice in an era marked by deepening political polarization and global unrest.

Professor Jennifer Raso, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, delves deep into AI and how governments are using AI to make decisions, why regulation is so challenging, and the ways AI is changing the policies and politics that affect our lives.