Ideas Matter: ‘Globalism and the challenge to the international elite’

From the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021.

In recent years, populist movements have thrived on a sense of anger at global elites who have distanced themselves from political control by their own national populations. The coronavirus pandemic has further served to suggest that the global system is extremely fragile. Yet, as betrayed by the likes of COP26 conference on climate change, the appetite for supranational decision-making is as strong as ever. This lecture examines the ‘globalist’ elite and their political culture of supranationalism, and asks what are its prospects are in a post-populist and post-pandemic world.

Lecture by Bruno Waterfield, Brussels correspondent, The Times

THE ACADEMY ONLINE IV: The elite: old and new
To view the full programme and some suggested background reading to the talks, please visit  https://theboi.co.uk/academy-online-iv  

ASSOCIATED READING / LISTENING

For this lecture you may wish to read:-

• READ: Phil Mullan, Beyond Confrontation: Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents https://amzn.to/3dCspbF
• READ: Hannah Arendt, Truth and Politics, The New Yorker, 1967 https://bit.ly/3GADGpd

THE ACADEMY
In the context of today’s instrumental approaches to knowledge, The Academy summer school is a modest attempt to demonstrate the value of scholarship, and of the worth of the university as a place of free enquiry dedicated to the pursuit of truth.

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