Program | Talk to the Author of “The End of Europe” | Aug 10

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Tennessee World Affairs Council Present Via Teleconference

“The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age”

James Kirchick

Thursday, August 10, 2017
1:00-1:30 p.m. CT.

August’s Cover to Cover will feature author James Kirchick on his new book, The End of Europe, on Thursday, August 10, at 1:00-1:30 PM ET.

Once the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for “Brexit;” examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers; and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. With President Trump now threatening to abandon America’s traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the continent’s security, Europe may be alone in dealing with these unprecedented challenges.

Based on extensive firsthand reporting, this book is a provocative, disturbing look at a continent in unexpected crisis.

Join Bill Clifford, WACA President and CEO, as he is joined by author James Kirckick (full bio.) for August’s Cover to Cover on The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age, Thursday, August 10, at 1:00-1:30 PM CT.

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About the Author

James Kirchick is a visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe and Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. A widely published journalist, he is author of “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age” (Yale, 2017), a correspondent for The Daily Beast, and a columnist for Tablet. He is at work on his second book, a history of gay Washington, D.C., for Henry Holt.

Kirchick’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Ha’aretz, Newsweek, Time, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Slate, The Weekly Standard, The American Interest, The Virginia Quarterly Review, World Affairs Journal, National Review and Commentary, among other publications. Around the world, his writing appears regularly in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s leading newspaper, and has also been published in Britain’s Prospect, New Statesman and Spectator, Italy’s Internazionale, Canada’s Globe & Mail, National Post, and The Walrus, the Czech Republic’s Lidove Noviny and The Australian.

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Program | Talk to the Author of “The End of Europe” | Aug 10

“The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age”

James Kirchick

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