10/26
2020
Lecture

The American 鈥淒eep State鈥

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Online
David Rohde

In a recent poll, three-quarters of Americans said they believed that a group of unelected government and military officials are secretly manipulating national policy. To conservatives, the 鈥渄eep state鈥 is an ever-growing government bureaucracy, an 鈥渁dministrative state鈥 that relentlessly encroaches on the individual rights of Americans. Liberals fear the 鈥渕ilitary-industrial complex鈥濃攁 cabal of generals and defense contractors who they believe routinely push the country into endless wars. But what is the American 鈥渄eep state鈥? Does it really exist?

Biography

David RohdeDavid Rohde is the executive editor for news of newyorker.com. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, he is a former reporter for Reuters, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of, most recently, In Deep: The F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the Truth about America鈥檚 "Deep State."