The Rise of Populaces in the United States

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Yoshe: Fiona Hill talks about growing up in a mining town in the north of england. The daughter of a poor family, she is deeply conscious of el opportunity for many people around the world. She also discusses how class shapes our politics and what we can do about it. Yoshe: How did you come to be an annalysts of international affairs? Fiona hill: I feel all the way through my childhoodd career, that i've been an outsider some oney.

Fiona Hill is the former Senior Director for Europe and Russia of the National Security Council under President Trump and a key witness in his first impeachment trial. She is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. In her latest book, There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, she describes her journey from the post-industrial north of England to the world of academia at Harvard and the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.

In this week’s conversation, Fiona Hill and Yascha Mounk discuss the resonance of populism for working class voters, remaining true to principle in the Trump administration, and the future of Great Power conflict.

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