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• Originally published 07/05/2018

  Tom Nichols Vents Again

  Tom Nichols

  His target:  People who complain that rich snooty guys in suits are to blame for the resurgence of populism.

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• Originally published 04/11/2018

  What Do Trumpism, Bannonism, Putinism, Orbánism, Erdoğanism, Xiism, Modiism, and Duterteism Have in Common?

  Ronald Beiner

  They’re appropriating the complaints of Nietzsche and Heidegger.

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• Originally published 03/16/2018

  ‘I’m fascinated by Mussolini’

  Nicholas Farrell

  Steve Bannon on fascism, populism and everything in between

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• Originally published 01/22/2018

  Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind” helps explain Trumpism

  Lily Geismer

  The book argues that the right has increasingly come to understand that in order to defend the old regime and preserve the power of elites they have to build alliances with the masses, and practice a form of “upside-down populism.”

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• Originally published 01/18/2018

  President Trump isn’t crazy. But he is dangerous.

  Federico Finchelstein

  What we miss when we focus on the president's mental health.

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• Originally published 01/15/2018

  Historians Have Long Thought Populism Was a Good Thing. Are They Wrong?

  Joshua Zeitz

  Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

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• Originally published 11/14/2017

  After Trump

  Frank Rich

  Liberals ecstatic over this month’s election must not forget: Even after this demagogue is finished, a new one will rise in his place.

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• Originally published 07/04/2017

  Donald Trump’s Populism Decoded: How a Billionaire Became the Voice of the “Little People”

  Leonard Steinhorn

  That a billionaire would assume the mantle of pitchfork populism may seem like a political and cultural oxymoron, but Trump is far more like his supporters than appearances suggest.

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• Originally published 06/28/2017

  Canada’s Secret to Resisting the West’s Populist Wave

  As right-wing populism has roiled elections and upended politics across the West, there is one country where populists have largely failed to break through: Canada.

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• Originally published 04/18/2017

  As Trump Drifts Away From Populism, His Supporters Grow Watchful

  President Trump has demonstrated that while he won office on a populist message, he has not consistently governed that way in the nearly 100 days in the White House.

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• Originally published 02/28/2017

  Have We Figured Out Trumpism Yet?

  Kevin Mattson

  One thing we do know: It’s not economic populism.

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• Originally published 02/28/2017

  What Is a Populist?

  Uri Friedman

  And is Donald Trump one?

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• Originally published 02/16/2017

  Is Trump a Populist?

  Finbarr Curtis

  How he compares with William Jennings Bryan, the Populist’s populist, in many contemporaries'' opinion.

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• Originally published 01/24/2017

  No, Trump is not another Jackson

  Sean Wilentz

  If anything, Trump is more like John C. Calhoun. 

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• Originally published 01/17/2017

  We’ve Been Here Before: Jon Meacham on the Literature of Our Discontent

  Jon Meacham

  Some fiction from our chaotic past repays attention as we seek our bearings now.

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• Originally published 01/09/2017

  What exactly is populism?

  Timothy Garton Ash

  In a long article in the NYRB about Europe’s political problems, Timothy Garton Ash says it’s real and here’s how to define it.

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• Originally published 12/29/2016

  The world today looks ominously like it did before World War I

  A backlash to globalization appears to be gaining strength around the world.

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• Originally published 11/29/2016

  The seeds of the alt-right, America’s emergent right-wing populist movement

  George Michael

  How did the movement gain traction in recent years? And now that Trump has won, could the alt-right change the American political landscape?

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• Originally published 09/29/2016

  Niall Ferguson says it's no surprise Trump's so popular

  History suggests he's exploiting forces that generally drive populists.

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• Originally published 06/30/2016

  It’s Time to Cultivate a New Grand Narrative

  Harvey J. Kaye

  Americans, especially young people, are rejecting the narratives of both the Republican and Democratic establishments – narratives that have bolstered corporate ambitions.

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• Originally published 06/27/2016

  Trump’s an Example of Populism Gone Wrong

  Michael David McQueeney

  It’s a story as old as Greek democracy.

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• Originally published 06/27/2016

  Populism wasn’t about making the system efficient

  Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman

  What populists cared about was making democracy work.

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• Originally published 06/23/2016

  Racism and the “Working Class” in Media Coverage of U.S. Politics

  Robyn Muncy

  The history of the term “working class” in American political conversations behooves us constantly to attend to the particular way the term is used.

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• Originally published 04/29/2016

  Trump and Sanders aren’t blazing new trails.

  Bart Bonikowski and Noam Gidron

  Populism has run through U.S. politics for a very long time.

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• Originally published 03/22/2016

  How Can Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Both Be ‘Populist’?

  Michael Kazin

  Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders share an upbringing in New York’s outer boroughs and a repugnance for trade deals, but the similarities pretty much end there.

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• Originally published 03/08/2016

  The Truth About Donald Trump’s Populism

  Rick Perlstein

  What Matt Taibbi’s overlooking: All fascists achieve and cement power in remarkably similar ways.

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• Originally published 09/22/2014

  Why populism and parties terrified George Washington

  Alan Pell Crawford

  James Madison called it “perhaps the greatest error” of George Washington’s “political life.” That he committed so few makes Washington’s speech of November 19, 1794, memorable in itself.

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• Originally published 04/24/2014

  A populism spurned by the downturn’s discontents

  Niall Ferguson

  European populism is more like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party than Boston’s, writes Niall Ferguson

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• Originally published 03/25/2014

  Business Leaders Will Have More Influence on Politics When They Shelve the "Populists are Nazis" Meme

  Benjamin Waterhouse

  Business leaders have been comparing their opponents to Nazis -- and Communists, and socialists -- for a long time. It's never worked well for them.

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• Originally published 11/27/2013

  Oral history project to document oil spill impact

  The University of Southern Mississippi Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage is helming the project.

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• Originally published 03/20/2018

  Who Are The People?

  Steve Hochstadt

  Under the guise of “populism”, conservatives seem to attack “elites” from below, but actually focus on attacking social groups regarded as different from above. In Trump’s America and in many European countries, right-wing political formations of white Christians attack immigrants, those with darker skin, Muslims and sometimes Jews as not belonging to “the people”.