January 6, Domestic Terrorism in America

The  mass riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 deeply shocked most  Americans, but was connected to illiberal elements in America society  that have existed since the founding of the nation.  This lecture traces  the connections between the ideas animating the January 6 riot and  illiberalism in America and proposes some ideas on how to heal a nation  that has become dangerously polarized and troublingly anti-democratic.

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Location:  CLE Lecture Hall

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Presenter:  David Schanzer is a Professor of  the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Director of the  Triangle Center on terrorism and homeland Security at Duke University. Before coming to duke in 2005, Schanzer served as Minority Staff  director for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland  Security, Legislative Director for Senator Jean Carnahan, Special  Counsel for the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, and  Counsel to Senators Joe Biden, Jr.  and William S. Cohen.  he previously  served as a trial attorney in U.S. department of Justice, law clerk to  the Honorable Nora Shapiro (E.D.Pa.) and law clerk in the Office of the  Solicitor General of the United States.  Schanzer is a graduate of  Harvard College (1985) and Harvard Law School (1989).