![]() ![]() The talks particularly focused on helping first-year students explore the rights and responsibilities of democratic engagement during their time at Johns Hopkins. After remarks by university and civic leaders, undergraduate students participated in 21 pop-up seminars led by faculty from across Johns Hopkins that were designed to foster critical thinking about the challenges of democratic governance. Such figures only added urgency to the university's second annual Democracy Day, held Saturday. More than a third of the world's population now lives under an authoritarian regime. It's democracy's lowest showing since the index began 16 years ago. ![]() Just over 45% of the world's population lives in some form of democracy, according to The Economist magazine's latest Democracy Index of more than 160 countries. Democracy is in retreat around the globe. ![]()
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