by Sofia Samoilova | Apr 17, 2025 | Tartu University
On October 10th, 2024 I ordered the freshly released Boris Johnson memoir, Unleashed (Croft,2024). None of my relatives or friends from the UK, nor any of my classmates, paid any attention to this book—except for me, just because it was placed on bookshelves the same...
by Konner Lee | Oct 16, 2022 | Boston University
According to Jan-Werner Müller, the idea of Populism can be identified as an impossibleconcept as there are a multitude of differentiating viewpoints of what populism constitutes. Inrecent times, Britain’s governmental structure has increasingly leaned toward...
by Dylan Molloy | Oct 12, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union (EU), has been met with a multitude of criticism. Brexit, which was deemed to damage the United Kingdom’s economy, was voted on by the citizens of the United Kingdom. This referendum paired with populism...
by Steven Rubin | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
An attack on the freedom of the press and can easily be seen as an attack on democracy. Of the many key features of truly democratic countries, freedom of the press is often viewed as essential. In the United States, freedom of the press is protected by the First...
by Emily Young | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
On the 23rd of June, 2016 the United Kingdom voted in a national referendum with a vote of 51.9% to 48.1% to leave the European Union. [1] This was an unprecedented vote that shocked many around the world. In the aftermath of this vote, referred to as...