The populist challenge in many countries has been both a threat and a rebuke to the liberal consensus. How should policymakers who want to defend the principles of tolerance, openness, and rationality best counter their opponents?
Anatole Kaletsky uses Brexit voting data to show that economic dislocation had little to do with the outcome.
Michael Spence explains how new technologies have both fueled the problem and enabled mobilization against it.
Andrés Velasco rejects the view that populist politics is simply a response to bad economics.
Jeffrey Frankel rebuts the argument that central bankers should be addressing income inequality.
Philippe Legrain warns that Theresa May sounds more like Europe's leading right-wing populists every day.
Joseph S. Nye believes it is premature to conclude, as many observers have, that globalization is in retreat.
Nina L. Khrushcheva sees a deeper lesson in Colombians' rejection of the peace deal with the FARC guerrillas.
Chris Patten worries that mainstream politicians are too complacent to take on anti-establishment challengers.
Guy Verhofstadt says the EU's problems are being compounded by national politicians' cowardice and opportunism.
