Democratic Threats and Renewal

A candidate for citizenship holds the American flag during the playing of the national anthem at the start of a naturalization ceremony in Atlanta for 755 new United States citizens.

Jill Lepore,professor of American history at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of many books, including These Truths: A History of the United States, talks about how the threats to democracy in the 1930s led to its eventual reinvigoration as part of The New Yorker's new series "The Future of Democracy."