Marek Beylin is a journalist, writer and historian, who has collaborated with German, French and Czech colleagues on research on collective memory in society. Since the early 1990s Beylin has been working for Gazeta Wyborcza.
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Published in: HomePopulism: a European warning shot and what to do about itThis sudden emergence of populism was in fact a true sign of modernity. This is what you might describe as a warning shot – and when you see it happen, you have to realize that something is very wrong with democracy. An interview.
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Published in: HomeThe helpless and the resourceful, or the beginnings of Polish populismsPoland has two populisms: “the populism of the dispirited”, mobilising those who struggled to adjust to life in the new Poland; and a form of neo-liberal populism, embracing free market capitalism and excluding those who did not prosper. Both have deep roots in Poland’s history.