Economy
'Cities Will Save Democracy If They Don’t Kill It First'
Eric Liu, a writer and thinker who teaches citizens to create their own power, has a bold challenge for city leaders.
By the diagnosis of the writer and thinker Eric Liu, protests are one way a city’s immune system tells the body politic that it’s sick.
“Protests about monuments are not just protests about monuments,” Liu said Tuesday in remarks at CityLab Paris. “They are a plea to be included in the story of ‘us.’ If that story is leaving out large numbers of people who can’t see themselves as ‘us,’ the immune system’s gonna tell you.”