Agnieszka Holland for PS Insider Interview: Fear and Loathing in Poland

Irena Grudzińska Gross interviews Agnieszka Holland about her new award-winning film and the role of the refugee issue in the upcoming election. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( OCTOBER 13, 2023 During each election campaign, Poland's right-wing populist ruling party invents an enemy to harness public fear and anger. In the run-up to this month's general election, Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland tells journalist Irena Grudzińska Gross, it has set its sights, once again, on refugees and anyone who would show compassion for their hellish plight. [Read more]( [PS Insider Interview: Fear and Loathing in Poland]( [Fear and Loathing in Poland]( Agnieszka Holland interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross As in the past, refugees will be a key issue in Poland's election this month, because the ruling party wants it to be so. Law and Justice is betting that voters will succumb to their basest, most xenophobic instincts, rather than recognizing the parallels to one of the darkest periods in their country's history. [Read more]( [PS. Subscribe to PS Digital now.]( [PS Big Picture: Israel Goes to War]( [Israel Goes to War]( with Barak Barfi, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Richard Haass, and Peter Singer The latest outbreak of violence between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas began just days ago, but the death toll is already in the thousands. With Israel gearing up for prolonged military intervention in Hamas-controlled Gaza, will the massacres the group carried out bring anything but suffering to ordinary Palestinians? [Read more]( [PS Longer Reads: The Two Faces of Neoliberalism]( [The Two Faces of Neoliberalism]( By Jeremy Adelman The progenitors of neoliberalism were novel thinkers who engaged in scholarly pursuits while also seeking to instrumentalize their concepts in the real world. All wrestled with a question that came to dominate much of the twentieth century: Does freedom lead to prosperity, or is it the other way around? [Read more]( [PS. Subscribe to PS Premium to secure your copy of PS Quarterly: Stayin’ Alive.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.