The Retreat of Western Liberalism | Edward Luce | Trump's America (2017)
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Channel: UCD - University College Dublin · 2017 · Education
Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator at the Financial Times. He has worked at the FT since 1995 and served as Washington bureau chief from 2006 – 2011. Luce has published three books: The Retreat of Western Liberalism (2017), Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline (2012) and In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (2006). He was speechwriter for Larry Summers, US Secretary of Treasury in President Bill Clinton’s administration, from 1999 – 2001. Luce graduated from University of Oxford with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics in 1990. He completed a post-graduate diploma from City, University of London in 1993. Twitter: @EdwardGLuce "Trump's America" was a conference hosted by the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies (05-06 May 2017), examining the political and cultural significance of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States, and the first 100 days of his administration. UCD Twitter: http://twitter.com/ucddublin UCD Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universitycollegedublin UCD Instagram: http://instagram.com/ucddublin UCD Homepage: http://www.ucd.ie
