Adelaide Writers’ Week: Rise of the Right

Across the globe, right-wing populist movements are on the rise. The likes of Trump in the US, Duterte in the Philippines, Orbán in Hungary, Erdoğan in Turkey – leaders with anti-democratic agendas and dangerous rhetoric – are ascending to power. What are the implications? For geopolitics? Minority rights? Carolin Emcke (Against Hate), Nancy MacLean (Democracy in Chains) and Jeff Sparrow (Trigger Warnings) bring perspectives from Europe, America and the Asia-Pacific.

Chair: Dominic Knight

Nancy MacLean
Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry (a New York Times ‘noteworthy’ book of the year) and Freedom is Not Enough, which was called by the Chicago Tribune ‘contemporary history at its best.’ The William Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, and broadcaster. He writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian and contributes regularly to many other Australian and international publications. Jeff is a member of the 3RRR Breakfasters team and the immediate past editor of literary journal Overland. He is the author of a number of award-nominated books, including Money Shot and Communism: a love story. His most recent book is Trigger Warnings.

Democracy in Chains

Nancy MacLean

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 28 Aug 2017 Category: Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies Cover view

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Trigger Warnings

Jeff Sparrow

RRP: $29.99 Pub date: 1 Oct 2018 Category: Political correctness Cover view

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