This video essay, Overdoing Democracy: When Politics Saturates Our Lives, Civic Capacity Suffers, is brought to you by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy. Written and edited by Robert Talisse. 

Robert Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and author of Overdoing Democracy and Sustaining Democracy, both from Oxford University Press. He specializes in contemporary political philosophy, with a particular interest in democratic theory and political epistemology.