Culture is the far right’s secret weapon – and it’s winning over some of Europe’s most educated youth

By Deniz Torcu, Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media, IE University

Across Europe, an emerging pattern is unsettling the assumptions of liberal educators and policymakers alike. Students who study in multiple countries, speak three or four languages, and graduate from globally ranked institutions are gravitating towards nationalist narratives. Not all of them, of course, but enough to make us pause.

It is increasingly clear that the far right no longer appeals solely to those left behind by globalisation. In addition to resentment and anger, it has successfully tapped into something much more primordial and elemental: belonging.

And Europe’s…

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