Restoring America's Promise

In his new book, America’s Promise Restored: Preventing Culture, Crusade and Partisanship from Wrecking our Nation, Harlan Ullman contends that America’s current political system and its ideologically driven society have transformed, fragmented, and perverted the democratic process. Ullman, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, argues that our government is ill-equipped to deal with the myriad challenges we face as a nation -- highlighted by a growing international jihadist movement -- while the electorate is increasingly ill-informed and disengaged. What are the causes of this transformation in our society? How do we inject accountability and rationality into our government’s decision-making process?

Please join us as Steve Clemons, Director of the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Project and Publisher of TheWashingtonNote.com, moderates an important examination of the challenges we face as a nation and the potential solutions to address the problems with our government and the apathy of those it governs.

Participants

• Harlan Ullman
  Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Columnist, The Washington Times
• Steven C. Clemons
  Director, American Strategy Program

Related Links

Excerpts from America’s Promise Restored in The Washington Times:

• Restoring our Future (June 19, 2006)
• America Gone Bad (June 20, 2006)
• A Promising Blueprint (June 21, 2006)