May 4, 2018
Donald Trump is in power in America. Doug Ford is headed that way in Ontario. The alt-right seems ascendant everywhere, while liberal democracy is in crisis. Journalists are being demonized as "fake news" at best and "enemies of the people" at worst. Pax Americana faces an assault from within as its leaders openly question and threaten to dismantle the rules-based order that has undergirded global democracy, stability and prosperity since the Second World War. And it looks like a lot of people want it this way. What on earth is going on?
Joining Ben on the program is Professor Keith Banting of Queen's
University. Dr. Banting is a renowned scholar of political science
and policy studies, with a focus on diversity, immigration and
multiculturalism. The author or editor of over 20 books,
including
Inequality and the Fading of
Redistributive Politics, Dr. Banting has recently worked
to explain the not-wholly-unprecedented rise of populism in today's
political discourse.
Read the blog post about this episode.
About the Guest
Dr. Keith Banting is a professor in two different departments at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario: Policy Studies and Political Studies. He has had a long-standing interest in the politics of social policy, and has recently extended this research to include ethnic diversity, immigration and multiculturalism. He is the author or editor of twenty books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Dr. Banting is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. You can find quite a number of his incisive and insightful speeches on YouTube, and I’d encourage you to take the time.
Mentioned in this Episode
The Quote of the Week
People do not have idea. Ideas have people.
- Carl Jung (1875-1961)