For years, the world seemed to increasingly embrace progressive ideals, but looking at the results of many big elections over the last decade, one can’t help but think this momentum has all but disappeared.
The conservative narrative is back from never having been fully gone, and has secured electoral victories with slogans that seem primarily to want to restore some good old time. Meanwhile, the university and its population get a scolding. We are too elitist and too woke. We are out of touch with the concerns of ordinary citizens. And while we preach inclusion, conservative views are in actuality not tolerated. At least, that is the indictment.
On 16 March 16:00 (that’s 4 PM for Americans) 3D will venture outside of the ivory tower. In a dialogue with prominent conservative and Theologist of the Netherlands Prof. dr. Arnold Huijgen and philosopher Prof. dr. Govert Buijs, we will discuss this interesting movement, which is so rarely heard on campus. Is our society indeed turning more conservative? Is there really so little space on university campuses for the conservative viewpoint? And, not unimportant, to what extent is that new and successful, populist reactionary conservative sound áctual conservatism? Together with all present, we will seek to answer these questions, and more.
