What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not the free market and the flowering of personal liberty. Instead, the death of government agencies organized under the rule of law inevitably leads to the only realistic alternative: the rule of men. Political scientist Jeffrey Kopstein offers an impassioned plea to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it.
| Open to | all |
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| Prior registration | not required |
| Organised by | Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences |
| Contact organizer of event | lars.rensmann@uni-passau.de |
