Lukes Discusses Trump Presidency in Neovlivni
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was quoted in an article exploring the failures of the Trump administration in Neovlivni, a Prague-based monthly that is focused on investigative journalism.
In the article, titled Trumpova spoušť biblických rozměrů (Trump’s Mess of Biblical Dimensions), Lukes discusses the policy record of President Trump, his elections, and his current attempts to belittle the U.S. presidential election. As he says, “Trump is the first American president whose electoral success was helped by a foreign power; he’s the first president who isn’t bothered with facts; the first president who fails to understand how scientists work; the first president who in a systematic way seeks to destroy the American political system, the same system that picked him off the street and brought him to the White House.”
The full article can be read here.
Igor Lukes is a past winner of the 1997 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2020 winner of the Gitner Prize for Faculty Excellence at the Pardee School. He writes primarily about Central Europe. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read more about him here.