Chantal Mouffe

Antisemitic Lega graffiti. Turin, August 2019.
John Foster / 01 Nov 2019

Return of the Repressed

Cas Mudde’s The Far Right Today

“Populism...is the buzzword of the twenty-first century,” according to Dutch sociologist Cas Mudde, its best-known analyst. But that’s largely due to our misunderstanding it, he claims.(...)
John Foster / 03 May 2019

Democracy in the Era of Populism

Chantal Mouffe and the Spanish Election

With the results of the snap elections held in Spain on Sunday still in the headlines, new questions have been raised about the so-called “populist moment” about which so much ink has been spilt of late.(...)