Donald Trump: Wealth, Predestination, and the Making of a Messiah
An analysis of Donald Trump's psychology in his political rise, the Calvinist ideology of predestination, and the cultural and political impact of his figure in the U.S.…
On Political Violence After Trump’s Assassination Attempt
I therefore propose to put the Trump and Biden issues in brackets. If you like, I propose to think of them only as part of a larger set of forces.…
How democracies die – Review
Justification of democracy has become an essential theme in the current literature on political philosophy. Different factors have created the conditions for this to happen, but mainly they can be resumed in…
Kneeling On: from Colin Kaepernick to George Floyd
One policeman's knee triggered a disaster. It is almost poetic that another policeman's knee caused this revolutionary change in protests. The symbolic burden of a law enforcement officer amid this context bending…
What is populism – and why is it so hard to define?
The first reason for the conceptual confusion is that words don’t neatly map onto their referents. There is a struggle over the meaning of key political terms and the predominant use of…