Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, will deliver the inaugural Sternhell Lecture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on January 11, 2023.  Zeev Sternhell was an enormously influential historian and theorist of fascism, who considered its origins to lie in a combination of nationalism and an anti-materialist revision of Marxist ideas.  He received the Israel Prize in 2008.  Mueller’s lecture is entitled “Is fascism returning?”