This is the talk I gave on Saturday in a debate on ‘Interculturalism’ at the Lector in Fabula festival in Conversano in Italy. The starting point of this debate is the failure of multiculturalism. It has become fashionable today to criticise multiculturalism. The trouble is, many of the criticisms are as problematic as multiculturalism itself. And I say that as someone who’s been a critic of multiculturalism for more than 20 years, from well before it was fashionable to be […]

Categories: Multiculturalism • Tags: culture, herder, identity politics, immigration, interculturalism, left, multiculturalism, romanticism, universalism