Sonia Kapadia

Sonia Kapadia is Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Equal Justice Initiative, where she serves on the executive leadership team and oversees partnerships, special projects, film, branding, marketing, narrative work, and communications. She is also a trustee of the Aspen Institute and previously founded Taste Savant and held senior marketing roles in the food and beverage sector.

Liberal Democracy’s Crisis Is Capacity, Not a Superior Rival

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Francis Fukuyama, Chrystia Freeland, David French and Fareed Zakaria argued that liberal democracy is in a serious internal crisis but has not been displaced by a more viable political model. Fukuyama said no universal successor to liberal democracy has emerged; Freeland pointed to Ukraine as evidence that decentralized democratic societies can still mobilize effectively; and French warned that liberalism’s critics often identify real social failures before turning to authoritarian remedies. Their shared concern was that democracies will keep feeding strongman politics unless they can deliver purpose, competence, representation and trust.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202619 min read