A Bicentennial Midterm: What Happened in the 2026 Election and What It Means for American Democracy

The Buntrock Institute for Freedom and Community invites the greater St. Olaf community to A Bicentennial Midterm: What Happened in the 2026 Election and What It Means for American Democracy with speaker John Sides, Professor of Political Science and William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at Vanderbilt University, on November 16 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Viking Theater. The lecture will cover how the 2026 midterm election came at a precarious moment for American democracy on its 250th birthday. What explains the election’s outcome, and what does it tell us about the future of U.S. politics?