How can polarized societies learn to speak across deep divides? Ahead of the U.S. elections, Let’s Agree on Poland joins The New School’s TCDS for a conversation on democracy, dialogue, and institutional imagination in times of political fracture.

Like the United States, Poland has faced years of acute polarization and the challenge of right-wing authoritarian rule. Yet after a tense and highly mobilized 2023 election, the pro-democratic opposition regained power—reshaping the landscape of one of Europe’s most embattled democracies.

The event will present Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study of Constitutional Design (Oxford University Press, 2025), a groundbreaking collaborative volume that brought together over 130 thinkers—from liberals to conservatives—to explore what a shared social contract might look like.

Is it possible to reach a principled institutional compromise with the democratic right? Can progressive and conservative traditions coexist within one constitutional framework? And if not, what alternatives remain for divided democracies?