In 2016, the German historian and political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller published “What Is Populism?,” a well-timed examination of rising political movements, from the United States to India. He ...

It’s time to redefine what populism means in the context of a liberal democracy—that’s the view of Professor Seth Jaffe ’00, who teaches the history of political thought at LUISS Guido Carli ...

But as I understand American Populism, from its beginings to the present moment, it is an expression of hostility to state power and those who exercise it or seek to exercise it. It is no surprise ...

At an event in New Hampshire, former Vice President Mike Pence took aim at his former boss, calling for the Republican Party to abandon populism in favor of good, old-fashioned conservatism. At the ...

The rise of populism has received extensive academic and media attention. Research into the uses of "populism" in news media indicates that it predominantly has a disparaging connotation and is ...

"Populism is what we desperately need. What we have to have and what we can't have." That's Thomas Frank. And he says that while populism can metastasize into authoritarianism, it doesn't have to. In ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Thomas Frank is a founding editor of The Baffler magazine and the author of 11 books, including The ...

In “The Republican Time for Choosing” (op-ed, Sept. 7), Mike Pence presents a false choice for Republicans: conservatism or populism. I agree with Mr. Pence that man’s rights come from God, not the ...

Similar to fascism or socialism, the political ideology of populism has meant different things to different people at different times in history. With its American roots planted in the 19th century, ...

In his address to the nation last Wednesday night, President Biden declared that America was at an “inflection point,” at which people would have “to choose between moving forward or backward, between ...

Perhaps we should start with a definition of populism. "While there's no consensus definition of populism, it seems to be an ideology that divides society into a fight between 'the people' and 'the ...