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The crisis of Western democracy

The millennials are moving left: Labour’s success in the British election is part of a growing trend across Western Europe and America — what’s motivating it? Young and old are voting very differently in the U.K. and U.S. — that’s a big deal. Christian Caryl on what the London fire tells us about the crisis of Western democracy. Citizens of somewhere: Abigail Rhodes reviews The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart. Can The End of History and the Last Man still tell us something important about the world? Jaroslaw Kuisz and Lukasz Pawlowski interview Francis Fukuyama. Mutually assured resentment: Daniel Oppenheimer on why Trumpism is global. Will the West survive Trump? Carlos Lozada reviews The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce and The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea by Bill Emmott.