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The New Yorker Festival: It Happened Here | The Creation of President Donald Trump

With Jelani Cobb, Mindy Finn, Arlie Russell Hochschild and Rick Wilson.

Moderated by Dorothy Wickenden.

Jelani Cobb has contributed to The New Yorker and newyorker.com since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” A professor at the Columbia Journalism School, he won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for opinion and analysis journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.

Mindy Finn is an entrepreneur, civic reformer, and political strategist. She co-founded Stand Up Republic, a grassroots movement to uphold American ideals and democracy, and is the founder of Empowered Women, a nonprofit that promotes emerging leaders in civic life. She led digital-strategy efforts for Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential campaign and was a 2016 Vice-Presidential candidate, as the running mate of Evan McMullin. She was included on Politico’s list of “50 Politicos to Watch.”

Arlie Russell Hochschild is a writer and sociologist. She is the author of many books, including “The Time Bind,” “The Outsourced Self,” and the Times best-seller “Strangers in Their Own Land,” which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow, and a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. “Arlie Russell Hochschild’s View of Small-Town Decay and Support for Trump,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells’s story about her, appeared in September, 2016, on newyorker.com.

Rick Wilson is a Republican political consultant. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast, and contributes writing to the New York Daily News, Politico, and the Federalist. He has spoken critically of President Donald Trump online, on television, and in print.

Dorothy Wickenden has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996. She is also the moderator of “The Political Scene,” a weekly podcast on newyorker.com. Wickenden is the author of “Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West,” and a forthcoming book about three abolitionist women and their unusual friendship.











When: Sun., Oct. 8, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Where: Directors Guild of America New York Theater
110 W. 57th St.
212-258-0811
Price: $49
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With Jelani Cobb, Mindy Finn, Arlie Russell Hochschild and Rick Wilson.

Moderated by Dorothy Wickenden.

Jelani Cobb has contributed to The New Yorker and newyorker.com since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” A professor at the Columbia Journalism School, he won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for opinion and analysis journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.

Mindy Finn is an entrepreneur, civic reformer, and political strategist. She co-founded Stand Up Republic, a grassroots movement to uphold American ideals and democracy, and is the founder of Empowered Women, a nonprofit that promotes emerging leaders in civic life. She led digital-strategy efforts for Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential campaign and was a 2016 Vice-Presidential candidate, as the running mate of Evan McMullin. She was included on Politico’s list of “50 Politicos to Watch.”

Arlie Russell Hochschild is a writer and sociologist. She is the author of many books, including “The Time Bind,” “The Outsourced Self,” and the Times best-seller “Strangers in Their Own Land,” which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow, and a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. “Arlie Russell Hochschild’s View of Small-Town Decay and Support for Trump,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells’s story about her, appeared in September, 2016, on newyorker.com.

Rick Wilson is a Republican political consultant. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast, and contributes writing to the New York Daily News, Politico, and the Federalist. He has spoken critically of President Donald Trump online, on television, and in print.

Dorothy Wickenden has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996. She is also the moderator of “The Political Scene,” a weekly podcast on newyorker.com. Wickenden is the author of “Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West,” and a forthcoming book about three abolitionist women and their unusual friendship.

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