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Jonathan Sumption: why voters have lost faith in democracy

Jonathan Sumption: why voters have lost faith in democracy

Why have voters lost faith in democracy? Nick Spencer interviews Jonathan Sumption for The Tablet to get to the root of the issue. 03/04/2025

Mistrust and contempt for democratic politics are growing in the West. A former Supreme Court justice tells Nick Spencer that the roots of the problem lie deep in culture, history and psychology.

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of The Landscapes of Science and Religion (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). Nick is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 3 April 2025

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