David Ridley is a Lecturer in English and Journalism at Coventry University and is also currently studying for a Ph.D in Sociology at the University of Birmingham. His research investigates the possibility of a pragmatist, grass-roots sociology for a post-neoliberal society.
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Published in: HomeJohn Dewey’s ‘intelligent populism’: beyond Brexit, Trump and post-truthBoth left and right populism are based on a low opinion of public intelligence (an assumption, incidentally, shared with neoliberalism). What is needed is an ‘intelligent populism’.
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Published in: HomeNeoliberalism and its forgotten alternativeThe debate between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey throughout the 1920s points to an alternative to the neoliberal world view, submerged in the subsequent war between capitalism and communism.