How historic ideas of 'democracy' reverberate in American politics today

The American Revolution is often depicted as a struggle between the common man and the callous elite. Yet most of the famous American figures of the revolution were powerful landowners, with ownership over other human beings. A Duke University podcast revisits how contested ideas of "democracy" reverberate in American politics today.

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