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Our moment of populist revolt

From the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Populism, Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Haverford): Populism and the Idea of The People; and Roger Eatwell (Bath): Populism and Fascism. Pope warns that rising populism could produce a new Hitler. The introduction to Rethinking Antifascism: History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present, ed. Hugo Garcia, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, and Cristina Climaco. Paris Aslanidis (Yale): Is Populism an Ideology? A Refutation and a New Perspective. Jason Glynos (Bath) and Aurelien Mondon (Essex): The Political Logic of Populist Hype: The Case of Right-wing Populism’s “Meteoric Rise” and its Relation to the Status Quo. Sahar F. Aziz (Texas A&M): Global Conflict and Populism in a Post-9/11 World. The first chapter from The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation by Benjamin Moffitt.

Eric A. Posner (Chicago): Liberal Internationalism and the Populist Backlash. Did centrism beget populism? Simon Wren-Lewis wonders. Maria Daniela Poli (Konstanz): Contemporary Populism and the Economic Crisis in Western Europe. It's austerity, not globalization, that is making workers in France and Italy unhappy. One way Trump is different from European nationalists. Richard Steigmann-Gall (Kent State): Star-Spangled Fascism: American Interwar Political Extremism in Comparative Perspective. South Dakota lawmakers are showing us that populism is a lie. Eli Zaretsky on populism and Freudian mass psychology: Three paradoxes.

From The Critique, a special section on the theme “Stick It To The Man: A Year of Anglo-American Populist Revolt Against a Changing Culture and an Obtuse Political Establishment”, including Gerald Gaus (Arizona): The Open Society and Its Friends: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?; Suzanne Dovi (Arizona): Name-Brand Populism: Donald Trump’s Political Legacy; Sharon Lloyd (USC): Does Trump’s Election Represent a Failure of Democracy? Rousseau, Machiavelli, and Civic Duty in America; Christopher Beem (PSU): The Burden of Truth: Hannah Arendt, Democracy, and Donald Trump’s Lies; and Joshua L. Cherniss (University): Liberal Understanding for Troubled Times: Isaiah Berlin’s Insights and Our Moment of Populist Revolt.