Populism

Populism crashes up against the world of the establishment it starts a war. It may not be a war fought by armies in uniform but make no mistake; it is a war, a war of ideas. I like to think of it as a war of principles vs. ideology. On…

Unless many more politicians start understanding the causes of populism we may likely, globally, be heading for increasingly dismal times. Populism is on the increase; According to the European Institute of the Mediterranean, it has been a force to reckoned with since at least the 1980s. Although globalization, inequality and the fear of losing a cultural identity are often cited as causes, James Montier and Philip Pilkington in their GMO…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Quaderni dell’Osservatorio elettorale (QOE) — Italian Journal of Electoral Studies (IJES) — Nicolò Conti, Unitelma Sapienza Danilo Di Mauro, University of Catania Vincenzo Memoli, University of Catania Euroscepticism and populism are two key phenomena of contemporary European politics that can often be observed in tandem. During the last two decades, they appear to have progressed jointly within national politi-cal spaces and party…

Self-love begins with the words — I can. I can be with someone or be alone. I can be beautiful in my own way. I don’t have to follow the beauty standards of glamor magazines. I can choose the rules of my life. I can choose my own time. Nothing is too early…

Francis Fukuyama, the hero of liberalism with his famous work, The End of History and the Last Man, who considers that liberal democracy is the final form of ideology in the quest of history, is now reviewed. In his new book, he tends to re-evaluating liberalism. As a retainer of liberal democracy, he tried to do self-criticism against liberalism. Why isn’t liberalism working as it should? Did liberalism meet its end in the midst of the rise of populism?

This is a story about a conversation I had with someone I met on a flight. He was a stranger and I will never see him again. …

Uspeh Fidesza na madžarskem podeželju, kjer je prejel več kot absolutno večino, in njegov poraz v Budimpešti, kjer je zmagala opozicija, kažeta, da država ni le močno politično razdeljena, ampak tudi vse bolj geografsko in izobrazbeno polarizirana. Premier Viktor Orban po porazu Janeza Janše ne računa več nanj, toda tudi…