The United to Preserve to Democracy and the Rule of Law speaker series event is a conversation with Harvard Professor Daniel Ziblatt and former Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb. The event is co-sponsored by DemocracyFIRST and was recorded in Harrisburg, PA.

Daniel Ziblatt is a historian, expert on democracy, and the author of four books, including How Democracies Die (2018), co-authored with Steven Levitsky, a New York Times best-seller and described by The Economist magazine as “the most important book of the Trump era.” In 2023, he published Tyranny of the Minority, also with Steve Levitsky. The book is an analysis of American democracy in comparative perspective, also a New York Times bestseller.