Writer Astra Taylor dreams of democracy's radical potential, and one day reaching it - as an ancient idea we paradoxically crave and fear, a value contested by the people and the powerful, and as a platform to extend beyond electoral politics - into workplaces and schools and neighborhoods, and into the way we view the world and each other.

Astra is author of the book Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone from Metropolitan Books.