Given the complicated history of populism in the Chinese context, just how has the concept been used and received within…
“Populism” in Hong Kong’s contemporary politics
democracy
Beyond democracy’s imaginary investments
The figurative space opened up by a widespread crisis of democratic legitimacy has again filled the streets with multitudes banging…
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
In this forum of The Immanent Frame, the contributors tackle the dual questions of the political and the popular.
Africa and free/hate speech
In the era of post-truth, alternative facts, and fake news, hate, hateful, inflammatory, and dangerous speech pervade the African continent…
Political myopia and prophetic vision
The hit HBO show Game of Thrones (GoT), for example, is billed as epic fantasy, but at its heart it…
Good troublemakers
Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we…
Passion and virtue in public life
When does religious commitment shape believers toward the balance of confidence and intellectual humility required for vigorous engagement in democratic…
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…
Democracity, 2042
In view of present conditions, I was asked by the Committee to file a historian’s report. I regret to say…
On democratic despond
In calling attention to the abandonment of public hospitals by the moneyed elite, I intended to use the steady deterioration…