Populism, Aristotle and Hope

The Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture 2023 The period from 1988 to 2003, was one of extraordinary optimism. Every year the number of democracies increased, human rights improved, violent conflict reduced, there were fewer refugees and there was less global poverty. It was an era of triumph for the western liberal Democratic model for the United States and the politics of the centre ground. But the next 11 years was disrupted by series of humiliating shocks to the west – the fiasco of the Iraq...