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Tuesday, October 1

The Nordic Freedom Machine: Social Democracy as a Modelfor Individual Liberty
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Presenter:
Magnus Marsdal
Location:
4303 Wesley Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence and UCIS Engagement
Contact:
Stephen Lund
Contact Email:
slund@pitt.edu

This lecture will offer a comparison of the welfare states of Scandinavia and the U.S., conceptions of Left and Right and Liberty, and the embrace of the Nordic path to individual liberty.

About the Speaker:
Author and journalist Marsdal is the founder of the union-sponsored think-tank Manifest Center for Societal Analysis and the digital platform Manifest Media. Over the last decade, Marsdal has devoted much of his efforts to a Freedom Project, comparing the welfare states of Scandinavia and the United States of America. He currently hosts one of Norway’s leading politics podcasts