“Long live Reason!” in four language. Wikicommons/LiliCharlie. Some rights reserved.
Umut Özkirimli, in his recent piece in this publication, “White is the new black: populism and the academic alt-right”, levels the serious charge that alongside several colleagues I am, apparently, part of the ‘academic alt right’.
This represents little more than a shabby guilt-by-association attempt to smear the reputations of Professor Matthew Goodwin, David Goodhart and myself. This is doubly-disappointing as Professor Özkirimli, with whom I am professionally acquainted, has done serious academic work in nationalism studies. He also tries to associate himself with Ivan Krastev. This is somewhat disingenuous, as it turns out Krastev has read a version of the article but disagrees with the argument.
