The Guardian’s Populism Panic
Britain’s leading liberal newspaper has set out on a mission to define and defeat “populism.” It has not gone well.
25 Article(s) by: Anton Jäger
Anton Jäger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and coauthor of The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession.
Why “Post-Work” Doesn’t Work
Many on today’s Left seek to abolish work. But the goal of socialism is to transform it.
On the Front Lines of the Populism Wars
Left populism might be working in practice — but does it work in theory? A review of Chantal Mouffe’s latest salvo in the “populism wars.”
21st Century Americanism
Populist symbolism can be powerful — but we can’t drop the old language of class.
The Myth of “Populism”
It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.