Date: Friday, February 3, 2017
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St.
Cost: FREE
Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau presents:
\American politics has often been an arena for suspicious and angry minds. In recent years a growing number of Americans have supported candidates who rail against the establishment, joined populist movements like the Tea Party or OWS and embraced wild conspiracy theories (the Birthers, 9-11 was government conspiracy, FEMA runs concentration camps, etc.). What explains this turn in our politics?
This lecture reexamines recent developments in light of an argument first made by the historian Richard Hofstadter in 1964, that the “paranoid style” has always been an important influence in American politics. Placing today’s politics into historical context, the lecture will draw parallel to previous periods of paranoid politics and explain the forces and factors that produce a politics marked by populist rhetoric, anti-establishment politics, and suspicion of political elites and institutions. It will also explain how populism on the left and right today differ.
Friday Feb 3, 2017
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St., Moses Lake, WA 98837
FREE
Phone: (509) 764-3830
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