An Evening with Rachel Maddow

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Sitting through a conversation about how democracies come apart hits differently inside a building that exists because this one already did it once. The museum on North Central stands a few blocks from where families were ordered to report with only what they could carry. The people who built it were the children on those buses, and they did not build a memorial. They built a civics argument with a roof on it. Maddow comes in to discuss her newest book with Ann Burroughs, the museum's president, and the pairing is the entire point: a broadcaster who traces how institutions fail, across from someone who was a political prisoner under apartheid before she ran an American museum. Neither of them is likely to be careful with the hour. Worth knowing: the Pavilion is closed for renovation, so the evening happens inside the Democracy Center, which seats far fewer people than the name suggests. Tuesday, November 17, 7pm, 100 N Central Ave.