The Global Wire Conversation - Campus Culture, Europe, and Political Islam with Russell Berman

In today's conversation, Ralph talks to professor Russell Berman
about the global pandemic, the future of the European Union,
Campus&Cancel Culture and political Islam. You can also find
this conversation on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3mxvf7TXw5YfadBmBqGxAg


Russell A. Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities
at Stanford University, is a senior fellow at the Hoover
Institution and a co-chair of the Working Group on Islamism and
the International Order.


Berman specializes in the study of German literary history and
cultural politics. He is a member of both the Department of
German Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at
Stanford. He has served in numerous administrative positions at
Stanford.


He is the author of numerous articles and books including
Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture
(1998) and The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and
Charisma (1986), both of which won the Outstanding Book Award of
the German Studies Association (in 2000 and 1987, respectively).
Hoover Institution Press published his books In Retreat:
America's Withdrawal from the Middle East (2014), Freedom or
Terror: Europe Faces Jihad (2010), and Anti-Americanism in
Europe: A Cultural Problem (2004). His other books include
Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture
(2007), Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: Representation and
Nationhood (1993), Modern Culture and Critical Theory: Art,
Politics, and the Legacy of the Frankfurt School (1989), and
Between Fontane and Tucholsky: Literary Criticism and the Public
Sphere in Wilhelmine Germany (1983). He has also published
numerous articles in the Hoover Digest, most recently "Marx’s
Moldering Manifesto" (fall 2018). His writings have also appeared
in Defining Ideas and Advancing a Free Society.