Vox Populi

The Perils and Promises of Populism

Roger Kimball

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781594039584
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophical Criticism

The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi, a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of this critical journal.Beginning with a reflection on the problems of populism for American conservatism (George H. Nash), the essays expound broadly and deeply on populist unrest—the populist revolts of ancient Rome (Barry Strauss), the rise of popular referenda and the Brexit vote (Daniel Hannan), American populism and the legacy of H. L. Mencken (Fred Siegel), populism and the Founders' generation (James Piereson), populism and identity (Roger Scruton), populism around the world (Andrew C. McCarthy), the birth of a new American populist movement (Victor Davis Hanson), and populism's historical impact on the American party system (Conrad Black). The book concludes with a discussion of the struggle to keep government in the hands of a free people (Roger Kimball).Just what perils and promises are found in populist ferment may be the question of our age. Taken together, these ten essays consider "the voice of the people" in the light of history, in a collection that only The New Criterion could assemble.

INDEX

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Abedin, Huma

Acemoğlu, Daron

Acheson, Dean

Adair, Douglas

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Administrative state, populism’s revolt against

Administrative Threat, The (Hamburger)

Adorno, Theodor

“Advice to My Country” (Madison)

Affordable Care Act (2010)

Afghanistan

“After Germany’s Conquest of the United States” (Mencken)

Agnew, Spiro

AIG

Alinsky, Saul

Alter, Jonathan

Alternative for Germany party

Alternative Right (alt-right)

“America First” rhetoric: Trump and; World War II isolationists and

American Affairs

American Exceptionalism, youth’s lack of knowledge about

“American Greatness” website

American Party (Know Nothings)

“Anger,” used to describe populists

Anti-communism: intellectual history of conservatism and; McCarthy and

Anti-Intellectualism in America (Hofstadter)

Arab Spring, West’s misinterpretation of

Aristotle

Articles of Confederation

Atlantic

Authoritarian Personality, Frankfurt School and

Autorität und Familie (Fromm)

Avaaz.org

Bacon, Robert

“Ballad for Americans, A” (Robeson)

Bannon, Stephen K.

Bell, Daniel

Bimetallism, elections and

“Bitter clingers,” Obama’s comments about

Black Lives Matter

Blair, Tony

Boehner, John

Boren, James H.

Bouazizi, Mohamed

Bradley Project on America’s National Identity

Brant, Irving

Browning, Christopher

Bryan, William Jennings

Buchanan, James

Buchanan, Patrick

Buckley, William F. Jr., intellectual history of conservatism and

Burke, Edmund

Burnham, James

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

Bush, Jeb

Calhoun, John C.

California

Calomiris, Charles

Cameron, David

Carney, Jay

Carson, Ben

Carter, Jimmy

Cato (play)

Chambers, Whittaker

Change.org

Chao, Elaine

Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, of European Union

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Christie, Chris

Cicero, mixed constitution of

Civil War era elections

Claremont Review of Books

Clay, Henry

Cleon

Climate change, Trump and Paris Agreement

Clinton, Hillary; Clinton Foundation and; “deplorables” comment and; election of 2016 and; as secretary of state

Clinton, William J.

Clinton Foundation

Clodius

CNN

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Cohn, Gary

Cold War, Reagan and

College campuses, free speech issues on

Commentary

Compromise of 1850

Conscience of a Liberal, The (Krugman)

Conservatism, post–World War II intellectual history of: historical components; post–Cold War tensions within; Trumpism and; twenty-first century trends and challenges of

Conservative Mind, The (Kirk)

Constitution, of U.S.; administrative state and; Electoral College and presidential elections decided by states; as impediment to populism; Madison’s instincts toward democracy, majority rule, and factions; modern critiques of; opponents’ use against Trump; Tea Party and; Treaty Clause of

Coolidge, Calvin

Cooper, Anderson

Coughlin, Father Charles

Coulter, Ann

Cowley, Malcolm

Credit crunch. See Great Recession of 2008

Cruz, Ted

Currie, Lauchlin

Davis, John W.

Dawkins, Richard

Dayton, Mark

Debs, Eugene V.

Demagogues: administrative state and; falsely associated with populism

Democracy: anti-populists and questioning of value of; as “eulogistic” word. See also Representative govern...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• American Conservatism & the Problem of Populism
• Populares & Populists
• Insects of the Hour
• The German Victory over American Populism
• A Bulwark Against Tyranny
• Populism versus Populism
• Representation & the People
• The Unlikeliest Populist
• Avenue to Renovation
• The Imperative of Freedom
• Contributors
• Index