• OPINION

  Trumpism meets defeat in London

  News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 10/05/2016

  » Donald Trump became last week the presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential elections. But those condemned to agonising suspense and anxiety until November should note that Trumpism, or the politics of hate and fear, also suffered a major defeat last week.

• OPINION

  What's driving the global spread of demagogues?

  News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 01/06/2016

  » In Austria last month, nearly half of the electorate voted for the presidential candidate of a party set up by former Nazis. The politics of fear unequivocally triumphed in Assam, a state in India's northeast, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party came to power for the first time on an explicitly xenophobic platform.

• OPINION

  Trump, the un-American strongman

  News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 29/03/2016

  » US politics today presents, to this foreign observer at least, a very un-American spectacle. A country originally built on immigration is awash with popular hatred against immigrants. A candidate of the right rails against free trade and foreigners, while that of the left proclaims his faith in socialism. Xenophobia is rife. Class war seems perilously close to the surface.

• OPINION

  'Gangsta Islam' has very little to do with religion

  News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 21/04/2016

  » 'Islam's borders are bloody," Samuel Huntington once wrote, "and so are its innards." Since the Sept 11 attacks, that conventional wisdom has fuelled a bizarre search for the Islamic roots of modern terrorism.

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