Pradnya Garud In part 2 of her interview, Catherine Liu discusses the ideological shifts in U.S. academia after 1968 and its role in manufacturing elite consensus. She examines the rise of liberal authoritarianism and its failure to deliver material gains for the working class. Towards the end, Professor Liu traces the emergence of trauma in …
Catherine Liu on the US Liberal Class – Part I
Pradnya Garud Catherine Liu, professor of Film and Media Studies at the School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine, talks to Round Table India about the worsening economic segregation and inequalities in contemporary U.S.A – the dominance of the professional managerial class, and the role of the elite liberal politics in the recent U.S. presidential …