Populist Cat
The Populist Phantom
Larry M. Bartels | Inside Story | 18th January 2025
The metaphor of a “populist wave” — in the US, Brazil, Hungary, India, Italy, and Sweden — exaggerates the successes of populism. In Europe, the average vote share for right-wing populist parties has increased by less than half a percentage point per year since the turn of the century. Populist gains in the West are less about a genuine public shift in political beliefs and more about changing elite politics (5,700 words)
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My Cat Mii
Mayumi Inaba | Paris Review | 20th January 2025
Memoir excerpt of author’s relationship with her cat, translated from Japanese. “It was the end of summer, 1977. I found a cat, a little ball of fluff. Her face was the size of a coin, split by her huge wide-open mouth. She was stuck inside the fence of a school on the banks of the Tamagawa River. I hugged her to my chest and a sweet scent filled my nostrils. Her body was infused with the smell of milk and summer” (2,200 words)
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