National Populism

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and a prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post communist Europe. She is also a professor of practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs ARENA, a research project on disinformation and 21st-century propaganda, and a Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of several books, including “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine,” “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe,” and “Gulag: A History,” which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Applebaum is a former member of The Washington Post’s editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, and a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist.

Eric Kaufmann is Professor and Assistant Dean of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has been researching immigration, religion, and national identity for more than twenty years. He has authored or edited nine books, most recently “Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities.” An editor of the journal Nations & Nationalism, he has written for The New York Times, Newsweek International, Foreign Affairs, New Statesman, National Review and Prospect, and his work has been covered in major newspapers and magazines in the UK and US since 2007.