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Socialism: Beyond the Myths

November 20, 2025
7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ET
WEBINAR

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What is socialism? While the term frequently appears in U.S. political discourse, its meaning remains ambiguous for many Americans. Register to hear panelists Axel Honneth, Nadia Urbinati, and Timothy Noah discuss this often misunderstood political and economic framework. Join live to ask questions. This event is organized by the Network for Responsible Public Policy.

SPEAKERS

AXEL HONNETH is the Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York. After holding professorships at the University of Konstanz and the Free University of Berlin, he taught before at Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he was director of the Institute for Social Research from 2001 to 2018. His publications in English include: The Working Sovereign, 2024; The Idea of Socialism, 2015, Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life, 2014; The Struggle for Recognition, 1994.

NADIA URBINATI is the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People (Harvard); The Tyranny of the Moderns; Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy; and Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government, which won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in democratic theory.

MODERATOR

TIMOTHY NOAH is a staff writer for the New Republic and maintains the Substack newsletter Backbencher. Previously he was a Washington-based reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a labor-policy editor for Politico, and an editor of the Washington Monthly, where he remains a contributing editor. He is the author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It (Bloomsbury, 2012).

EVENT CO-SPONSORS

Network for Responsible Public Policy
The Academy of Political Science
The Puffin Foundation
The McCourtney Institute for Democracy