MAS interviews Juliana Geran Pilon

February 24, 2026: Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization; professor of politics and culture; director of the Center for Culture and Security at the Institute of World Politics:

–transition from Romanian emigree to U.S. doctoral student (experience of real Communism cf. American academics who admire hard left regimes entirely in theory)
–ideological warfare and its complex role in Western thought, the United Nations, the academy, and the media
–the “march through the institutions,” which originated in the 19th century and infected American elites through progressivism and scientism with anti-liberal, anti-American intent
–antisemitism in the works of Karl Marx and on American campuses
–systematic cognitive war through gradual normalization of lies by elites at the most prestigious American universities, functioning as a prelude for violence