America's Authoritarian Turn | Gary Gerstle

Описание: Gary Gerstle, the 2024–2025 Joy Foundation Fellow, presents this year's Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities.

Gerstle looks beyond the figure of Donald Trump to inquire into the roots of America’s authoritarian turn. His lecture dissects how a neoliberal political order, focusing on free markets and limited regulation and dominant in the United States and abroad since the 1990s, widened economic inequality, stirred ethnoracial resentments, and raised doubts about the capacity of liberal democratic regimes to fix what had gone wrong. Gerstle explores why the unraveling of this political order in the 2010s energized the authoritarian right more than the democratic left, and concludes with some thoughts about where Americans might look for democratic renewal.

Discussant
Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, Yale University

The Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities was established to honor the late Julia S. Phelps, a longtime instructor in the Radcliffe Seminars, and is supported by the generous contributions of her family, friends, and colleagues.

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