IOP Pritzker Fellow Bhaskar Sunkara on "In Defense of Bill Clinton?"

THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY

Monday, March 23

3:30-4:45pm

The Clinton presidency is a case study to examine neoliberalism as a political turn shaped by structural constraint rather than individual betrayal of progressive ideals. Drawing on arguments long advanced in Jacobin, the session treats “Third Way” politics not as a moral deviation from social democracy, but as a response to weakened labor power, electoral vulnerability and the collapse of the postwar economic settlement.

Discussion focuses on what Clinton-era Democrats were responding to - slower growth, globalization, capital mobility and a transformed electorate - and how those adaptations have shaped the modern Democratic Party.

Pritzker Fellows seminars are off the record and open to current UChicago students only. Seating in the IOP Living Room is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact Ella Kumano-Maloney (ikmaloney@uchicago.edu).