The two-day conference, “Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times,” asks: is there a worldwide rebellion against liberal democracy? Features authors Teju Cole, Masha Gessen, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, as well as New York Review of Books Editor Ian Buruma, Wall Street Journal Columnist Walter Russell Mead, 2016 Congressional Candidate Zephyr Teachout, Occupy Wall Street Cocreator Micah White, and Artist Tania Bruguera.