Shikha dalmia biography of alberta
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Over the past decade, American politics and culture have been sliding — slowly, but inevitably — in a new direction.
Shikha Dalmia, a writer and journalist, is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism and of The UnPopulist, an editorial partner of Persuasion.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Shikha Dalmia discuss her journey from socialist India to the American libertarian movement; how mainstream libertarianism failed to meet the challenge posed by Donald Trump; and the proliferation of populist attitudes among the American electorate.
The transcript and conversation have been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
Yascha Mounk: We've been in conversation for a long time, so I’ve really looked forward to this.
And I have a sense of your backstory, but I've never really had you tell it to me.
So you really were a member of the libertarian movement for a long time. You were a journalist at Reason Magazine and lived in that kind of libertarian world.
What drew you to libertarianism originally?
Shikha Dalmia: I grew up in India,