Dr. Russell Muirhead will examine whether, despite political partisanship and the tendency of rival partisans to distrust each other, we can still believe in legitimate opposition and what we have to believe to think of the opposition as a “legitimate opposition.”  

Russell Muirhead is the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of A Lot of People are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy (Princeton 2020), which charts the way power-seekers marshal conspiratorial fabrications to elevate themselves and at the same time degrade democractic institutions. Muirhead has also written books on party polarization in American politics (The Promise of Party, 2014) and the moral meaning of work in democracy (Just Work, 2004). He is a veteran moderator of Aspen seminars. Before Dartmouth, Muirhead taught at Harvard, Williams College, and the University of Texas at Austin. 

This keynote event, funded by New Hampshire Humanities, will also be available via Zoom:
https://anselm.zoom.us/j/97100404615  Pass Code: 711361

Reading Resources for the Believe It or Not series, including books by Russell Muirhead, may be found at https://geiselguides.anselm.edu/c.php?g=1253762&p=9183183