Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap
Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
Tomislav Kardum
Tomislav Kardum is a Croatian historian & journalist. Author of Foreign Policy of the German Empire 1871–1890 and Between Revolution and Defense of the State: Communists in the Banovina of Croatia.
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Skewing the Overton Window
The double standard in the way in which fascism and communism, the extremist ideologies of the Right and Left, are regarded distorts political discourse.
Russia’s Strategic Blindness
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is eroding his empire.
Putinism and the Stalinist Legacy
From the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, justifications offered for Moscow’s aggression must have struck most non-Russian observers as unrealistic, to say the least. Many observers were incredulous that any educated Russian could possibly believe Putin’s claim that Ukraine required “denazification and demilitarization,” or that the