Democrats and Republicans traded visions for America this week, both in the State of the Union address and on the campaign trail. Both parties are embracing the core message that America's ...

There is no substitute for thinking—although modern-day America may have you believing otherwise. Novelist Martin Amis attributes the recent surge in anti-intellectualism to the populist politics ...

Populist discourse frames politics as a moral confrontation between a virtuous people and a corrupt elite, positioning itself as the authentic voice of popular sovereignty. As a thin-centred ideology, ...

Many Americans have forgotten the name. We haven’t. In 2014, David Brat, then a little-known economics professor, stunned the political world by defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a ...

Populism has emerged as a defining feature of political life across Western democracies, characterised by appeals to the “common people” against a presumed corrupt elite. While both left-wing and ...

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For a long time, Japan’s political system was treated as a success story in comparison with other democratic states. During the 2010s, while Western democracies were engulfed by a populist surge ...