With rightwing populist and nationalist politics gaining strength around the world, what is the best way to understand and counter them? What lessons can countries facing rising far-right movements learn from each other?
Political philosophy and news journalism offer two distinct frames through which to view the the upheavals in electoral politics - and beyond - that are sweeping away past certainties and turning democracies across the world upside down. How fearful should we be of these movements? What can the US and Europe learn from each other? And how can intellectuals and journalists help each other and the public to make sense of what is going on?
On 17th October 2019, the Stuart Hall Foundation invited an audience to join Michael Walzer as he presented and discussed the current surge of populist movements on both sides of the Atlantic.
Michael Walzer draws on several decades of experience as a public intellectual in the United States and as editor of the magazine Dissent, and has emphasised the need to address the politics of inclusion and redistribution that animate the underlying crisis of democracy.
This event was presented by the Stuart Hall Foundation in association with the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Mile End Institute, and was chaired by Professor Kimberly Hutchings (QMUL).