Christopher Caldwell: On Populism in Europe and Multiculturalism in America
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In a feature for the Spring 2019 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, Christopher Caldwell reported on Viktor Orbán's leadership of Hungary and the future of Europe. Caldwell joins the American Mind podcast to talk about Orbán's Hungary and the course he has charted on matters of immigration, culture and economics in contrast with some of his peers. Caldwell also addresses the ongoing battle between illiberal democracy and undemocratic liberalism as caricatured by Italy's Matteo Salvini and France's Emmanuel Macron, and elucidates the ties between European populism and American populism. During the conversation, Caldwell and host Ryan Williams also touch on the multiculturalist challenge to America.
Christopher Caldwell was a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and author of Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West (Anchor, 2010).
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| 0:00.0 | I think the main continuity across the populist uprising is that they're all democracy movements. |
| 0:05.6 | They're all people who correctly, actually, who correctly see that |
| 0:17.0 | remove certain questions from the scrutiny |
| 0:20.0 | from the scrutiny of the voters |
| 0:22.0 | and deliver them to regulatory bodies, bureaucracies, courts. Are you trying to understand the principles that guide American politics? |
| 0:46.0 | So are we. Welcome to the American Mind podcast. I'm your host Ryan Williams, |
| 0:52.0 | the president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review Books. |
| 0:57.0 | For all of our writings, programs, and all that we do, go to W.W. |
| 1:01.0 | Clermont.W. |
| 1:05.0 | My guest today is Christopher Caldwell, a contributing editor at the Claremont Review Books and a senior |
| 1:09.0 | fellow of the Claremont Institute. |
| 1:11.3 | Chris of course was also a long time senior editor at the Weekly Standard. |
| 1:15.4 | He's the author of the excellent and prescient book, Reflections on the |
| 1:19.6 | Revolution in Europe, Immigration, Islam, and the West. |
| 1:24.1 | On today's episode, Chris and I talk about populism, |
| 1:27.2 | both in Europe and in the United States, |
| 1:30.0 | about multiculturalism and identity politics, and about the trajectory of American politics |
| 1:35.2 | since 1965 through Trump's election to today. |
| 1:39.2 | Well Chris, welcome to the American mind. |
| 1:43.0 | So you and I just participated in this conference that the Claremont Institute put on with the |
| 1:48.3 | uncontroversial title of Multiculturalism versus America. I thought we'd pick up on a few of the themes from your remarks and talk a bit about some aspects of those and then I thought maybe we could talk a bit about populism in the West, both in Europe and maybe a little bit in the United States. |
| 2:06.0 | Sounds great. |
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