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.