President Donald Trump is wasting no time in carrying out his goal of throttling the free press. Over the first two weeks of ...

If supporters of liberal democracy want to win the battle, outrage and resistance will not be enough. They will have to defeat the arguments of the strongman leaders.

In this contribution, I am analysing the reasons for the appropriation of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. I argue that these ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who lived to the age of 96, reminds us that extreme right populism has been a persistent feature of European politics since the rise of liberal democracy after World War II. First ...

When a democracy becomes so corrupted into becoming illiberal, citizens often become so concomitantly frustrated with the system that they long for ‘liberation’ from it. This is where ...

In this sense, liberal democracy becomes ‘illiberal democracy’ in which only the form but not the substance of it is observed. Unfortunately in many parts of Africa, liberal democracy has ...