Protecting Democracy from the Outside

Gordon Carkner / Wednesday, December 2, 2020

UBC Graduate & Faculty Christian Forum Presents:

Protecting Democracy from the Outside

John M. Owen, Professor of Politics, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.

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