Last week, I joined a workshop at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation on reimagining (or reinventing, or recreating—the workshop materials sometimes vary the call to action) democracy. Each of 48 participants spoke for up to 10 minutes on loosely-grouped panels of six, with questions and answers and robust hallway debate. I returned home Wednesday night exhausted beneath the adrenaline buzz of new ideas and post-conversational high.