Donald Trump, a Polarised Public and the End of Democracy?

To open this 3-day focus and in response to the re-election of Donald Trump, the Berliner Festspiele have invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the distinguished American journalist and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. In his lecture, he will shed light on the changes in political discourse and the media during the last decade. Author and journalist Alice Hasters, who has written books on racism and identity crisis and hosts the podcast “Feuer & Brot” together with Maxi Häcke, will respond to his talk by putting forward her own proposals for a liberal debate culture. After this, both speakers will talk to Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel about ways in which public discourse can be freed from its current stasis.