Vox populi
Subtitle: the perils & promises of populism
By: edited by Roger Kimball
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781594039577
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Populism
Work titles: Vox populi (Encounter Books)
Description: "The ten essays that comprise this book began life in The New Criterion throughout the course of our thirty-fifth anniversary season beginning in September 2016. We had already begun thinking about commissioning a series on populism when the world was stunned by the successful British referendum, in June 2016, to take Britain out of the European Union. In the United States, the effervescent presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were, in their different ways, pushing the term 'populism' to the forefront of public debate and, indeed, public anxiety. In continental Europe, kindred phenomena had focused public attention on a wide variety of figures and movements that were hailed or dismissed as 'populists.'"--Backcover.
Notes: Includes index.

"Essays from The New Criterion"--cover.
Table of contents: title: American conservatism & the problem of populism / George H. Nash; title: Populares & populists / Barry Strauss; title: Insects of the hour / Daniel Hannan; title: The German victory over American populism / Fred Siegel; title: A bulwark against tyranny / James Piereson; title: Populism versus populism / Andrew C. McCarthy; title: Representation & the people / Roger Scruton; title: The unlikeliest populist / Victor Davis Hanson; title: Avenue to renovation / Conrad Black; title: The imperative of freedom / Roger Kimball.