Sheldon Wolin has spent a long career as a scholar searching for the meaning of democracy, the nature of power, and the role of the state. As a teacher at Berkeley in the 1960s, he drew his political insights not from scholarship alone but from the noisy streets where theory confronts the realities of American life. Wolin is the founder of the journal Democracy and author of Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, which influenced a generation of students in the 60s. In this program with Bill Moyers, he discusses the concept of democracy and the search for a collective identity. (30 minutes)