IOP Pritzker Fellow Bhaskar Sunkara on "The (Right) Populist Alternative"

THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY

Monday, April 6

3:30-4:45pm

This seminar examines right-wing populism as a response to dealignment, with particular attention to efforts on the Republican side to mobilize working-class voters without socialist institutions or redistributive programs. The session focuses on pro-worker conservatism, national-populism and anti-elite rhetoric as strategies for coalition-building under conditions where class alignment has weakened.

In conversation with Sohrab Ahmari, the discussion explores whether conservative populism represents a serious attempt to reconstruct working-class politics or a symbolic politics that substitutes cultural conflict for material power. The seminar asks what these movements get right about class dealignment, what they offer working-class voters in practice and where their political limits lie.

Special Guest: Sohrab Ahmari, U.S. Editor of UnHerd, Author of "THE UNBROKEN THREAD" and "TYRANNY, INC."

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).