Summary Youtube "Origin" of PopulismIn this series so far, we have read the arguments of four theorists: Mudde and Kaltwasser ...

Perhaps we should start with a definition of populism. "While there's no consensus definition of populism, it seems to be an ideology that divides society into a fight between 'the people' and 'the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A common, specious refrain from journalists and their favored sources is that the countries hit hardest by covid-19 have one ...

In 2016, the German historian and political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller published “What Is Populism?,” a well-timed examination of rising political movements, from the United States to India. He ...

In his address to the nation last Wednesday night, President Biden declared that America was at an “inflection point,” at which people would have “to choose between moving forward or backward, between ...

A new volume “Human Rights in a Time of Populism” edited by Gerald L. Neuman ’80 brings together reflections from a range of experts on a growing trend in international politics since 2016, the ...

There are now countless studies on populism. The point, however, is that these are often works which do not follow a Weberian – that is, scientific – approach at all, but instead seem to chase trends ...

People are talking more and more about fascism, and often confusing it with populism. Paul D. Kenny argues that we need to understand how fascism stands out. It has never been just a matter of words ...

At an event in New Hampshire, former Vice President Mike Pence took aim at his former boss, calling for the Republican Party to abandon populism in favor of good, old-fashioned conservatism. At the ...

What do these global dominoes falling – and the desperate, clawing overreaches of declining strongmen – significantly mean ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Thomas Frank is a founding editor of The Baffler magazine and the author of 11 books, including The ...