Yascha Mounk

A consideration of four recent books that attempt to contend with the rise of Trumpism at home and abroad.

Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy?

Populism is typically presented as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing.

Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.

Nationalism, not postmodernism, is the fount of today's politics of recognition.

"The New York Times" as the world's most exhausted professor.

The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.