Alumni College: Pervasive Populism

We are living in a populist moment, or so the pundits tell us. Populist ideas and rhetoric certainly seem to crop up not just in politics, but in discussions about public health, education policy, climate science, and plenty of other areas of life, both in the US and around the world. But why does populism seem so omnipresent in this particular moment in time? What does the populism moment tell us about the state of the body politic and the future of liberal democracy? Join Professor of Political Science Dev Gupta for this engaging talk.