La présentation de Dan Drezner portera sur son livre The Ideas Industry : How pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are transforming the Marketplace of Ideas

• Filled with engaging and witty stories about the foibles of contemporary intellectual life in the US
• Argues that the traditional public intellectual has been supplanted by a new model: the "thought leader"
• Identifies the forces driving this shift, including increasing inequality and political polarization
• First work on public intellectuals in American life in years by a nationally prominent author

La conférence se donnera en anglais.