Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Issues of the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" are on display at a newsstand in Hamburg. Following allegations of sexual assault lodged ...

Social scientist Yascha Mounk warned years ago that anti-democratic leaders were on the rise. He was right. And yet today, he feels hopeful: "I think the situation today is a mix of reasons to be very ...

In May, shortly after a white supremacist gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, the conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan published a piece on his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yascha was a prime mover behind the 2020 open letter on "justice and open debate" in Harper's magazine and is one of the most ...

Mounk traces the seismic impact of several intellectuals of the post-war period, most powerfully Michel Foucault and “a small cohort of French philosophers”, and a handful of postcolonial theorists, ...

An interview with political scientist Yascha Mounk about his outlook on the United States. Host Marcia Franklin talks with political scientist Yascha Mounk about identity, political divides and his ...

Yascha Mounk, one of Harvard’s rising stars, predicted the rise of populism well before the 2016 election. Mounk, a political theory lecturer in the Government department who pursued his Ph.D. in ...

“The Founding Fathers of the United States embarked on a great experiment in modern democracy when they set up a self-governing republic at a time when similar undertakings had miserably failed in ...

At the Human Rights Workshop on January 31, 2019, Yascha Mounk, an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, discussed the global rise of populism and the threats it poses to democracy. His ...