The "World Social Science Advanced Lecture" (No. 79), organized by the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (Fudan IAS) and Contemporary China Research Center at Fudan University, was held on Oct 11, 2024, at Fudan University. Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of American Academy of Arts and Letters and past-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, gave a lecture entitled The 2024 Election and the Crisis of American Democracy: Populism and Elitism Reconsidered. The lecture attracted more than 100 participants.