Charles Derber, professor of sociology at Boston College, is a leading social critic, who has written eight widely acclaimed books. The most recent is People Before Profit: The New Globalization In An Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis (St. Martin’s Press, 2002). Since the publication of Corporation Nation (2000) and the 1999 Seattle protests, Derber has become a prominent national commentator on corporate social responsibility and US foreign policy as well as globalization and its discontents.

Interestingly, Trump and Sanders seem to be attracting the same white working class voters. In this talk, Professor Derber will look at the structural, cultural and ideological cross-currrents shaping the election, including the shift of the GOP toward neo-Fascism, the spectacular rise of a socialist Democratic candidate, and the ways in which right and left populism are resonating to voters, especially white working class folks.