In America, race to the White House is getting more twists, given the fact that third party candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr has generated much greater noises among the voters, especially among the youths. More than 75% of the voters today refuse to see a Biden-Trump rematch. Meanwhile, from a historical perspective, democracy was heavily discussed among the founding fathers, the value, the protection, even the secrets, etc. How should we understand the correlation between democracy and secrecy? How did media play a crucial role, when it comes to protecting democracy?

Katlyn Carter is a political and intellectual historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, specializing in the American and French Revolutions. Her research focuses on the origins of modern representative democracy through the study of political practices and institutions.