March 3, 2000

Cultural Embargo or Constructive Engagement?

By BARBARA GIUDICE

Scholars have home-grown differences in reactions to the rise of the far right in Austria

Academics and artists are debating how to protest the rightist coalition that has won control of the Austrian government and stirred up the ghosts of fascism in the heart of Europe.

Should intellectuals push for a cultural embargo of Austria and try to starve the xenophobic rightists out? Or should they go to Austria and feed the vigorous internal opposition, which

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