Jan-Werner Müller is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Müller is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (today: Bard Berlin), Germany’s first English-language liberal arts college. His recent books include What is Populism? (2016), which has been translated into more than 20 languages, Furcht und Freiheit (2019), which won the Bavarian Book Prize, and Democracy Rules (2021). At Princeton, Müller directs the Program in Political Philosophy, the Forum for the History of Political Thought and the Academic Freedom Initiative. His public affairs commentary appears in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy.
Müller’s project as Old Dominion Professor, Christian Democracy: A New Intellectual History, traces attempts to reconcile Catholicism and modern democracy. Three strategies in particular are examined: imbuing the demos with religion; constraining the demos with religion; party formations that promote a religiously inspired agenda. The question is also posed what remains of Christian Democracy today.
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