Events & Calendars "Trump: Point/Counterpoint" Series: "Illiberalism in the Age of Trump"

The "Trump: Point/Counterpoint" conversation series features Amherst College professor, and host of NEPR's In Contrast, Ilan Stavans and a guest engaging in thoughtful discussion and attempting to bridge the ideological divide growing in our nation.

For part two of the series, join Ilan and his guest Bret Stephens as they discuss "Illiberalism in the Age of Trump." Illiberalism describes a system, while ostensibly a democracy, in which citizens experience reduced civil liberties and are cut off from knowledge of who holds real power in their society.

Bret L. Stephens joined The New York Times as an op-ed columnist in April 2017. His column appears Thursday and Saturday.

Mr. Stephens came to the Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial-page editor and, for 11 years, foreign affairs columnist. Before that, he was editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post, where he oversaw the paper's news, editorial and digital operations and its international editions, and also wrote a weekly column. He has reported from around the world and interviewed scores of world leaders.

Mr. Stephens is the author of America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, released in November 2014. He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including two honorary doctorates and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He is also a political analyst for MSNBC.

Mr. Stephens was raised in Mexico City and holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. He and his wife, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a music critic for the Times, live with their three children in New York and Hamburg, Germany.

The event is free and open to the public.

It is presented by the Amherst College class of 1970.

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