04-07-2025
With American democracy under strain, students debate its resilience
A dozen students gathered around a classroom table one afternoon last fall, their professor's dog napping in a patch of sunlight on the floor, to do something they rarely did anywhere else on campus: talk about politics.
All first-year students start their time at Johns Hopkins University by choosing a seminar. These 12, wildly varied in backgrounds, ideologies and interests, had signed up for 'Democratic Erosion.'
