βIs Democracy Doomed?β is an appropriately scary question for Halloween. The Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies asked that question back in 1934, in the depths of the Depression. Ninety years later, I asked the same question on a visit to Melbourne. Find out what my answer was here:
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