Illiberal Currents and the New Right: Ideological Transformations in the United States and Beyond
A conversation with Laura Field and Marlene Laruelle
Across the United States and Europe, liberal democratic norms are being challenged, these growing movements are not only political projects but also cultural and intellectual ones, reshaping debates about nationalism, sovereignty and pluralism. From the ideological reconfiguration of American conservatism after the election of Donald Trump to the rise of populist movements in Europe, a new landscape of ideas is taking shape, One that connects domestic culture wars with broader geopolitical visions.
On April 21st, the Netherlands Atlantic Association will host Laura Field and Marlene Laruelle, two leading scholars of ideology and political thought to examine these transformations, Field and Laruelle will explore how contempoarary conservative and nationalist movments are reconfiguring politial alingments, and global debates about liberalism. Filds's recent book, Furious Minds, provides an entry point into these questions tracing the intellectual networks behind the American New Right.