On Tuesday, New York University’s School of Law launched the NYU Democracy Project. The objective is to assess the challenges to American democracy “from diverse ideological perspectives,” as the project’s mission statement explains.

The project is being launched with a series called “100 ideas in 100 days.” Contributors have been asked to provide short essays on various aspects of democracy and the pressures it faces due to extremist perspectives, erosion of the governing framework that safeguards liberty and due process, and the eternal question of whether proposed reforms would be helpful or counterproductive.

I was gratified to be asked to provide a piece for the project, and I’m looking forward to reading the other contributions.

The project is being led by three NYU law profs who are experts in governance and legal issues specific to democracies worldwide — Bob Bauer, a former White House counsel who, with Jack Goldsmith, co-founded the excellent “Executive Functions” Substack, which I highly recommend; election law expert Richard Pildes; and Samuel Issacharoff, a scholar of constitutions.

Read more about the project here, and be on the lookout for 100 ideas in 100 days.