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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can't understand politics without reading fiction. There is no deeper novel about how political change does — and, just as ...

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 ...

Stanley Hoffmann passed away this past Sunday. Political science has lost a model for what it means to be a scholar, an intellectual, and a mensch — and it will never be the same. A daily, ...