I share your sadness! We solicited a few Roman papers originally, but things didn't work out logistically.

Rensmann's “Illusions of Sovereignty: Understanding Populist Crowds with Hannah Arendt” assembles elements of Arendt’s thought into a diagnosis of the conditions and character of authoritarian populism. 13/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Herrero, “Carl Schmitt on the Transformations of the People” argues Schmitt is wrongly interpreted as a partisan of authoritarian populism. Instead, he believed modern politics slides toward such populism, given political modernity itself. 12/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Piirimäe, “Herder on the Self-Determination of Peoples” focuses on Herder's understanding of the alignment between peoples and governments, so as to bring Herder into the story of the genesis of the Enlightenment idea of self-determination. 11/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Altini, “The Crowd, the People, and the Philosopher in Spinoza's Political Philosophy" compares “the people” and “the crowd”, locating Spinoza’s account of tyranny and democracy within his higher perspective on the wisdom of the philosopher. 10/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Foisneau, “The Hobbesian Crowd Problem” scrutinizes Hobbes’s conception of the crowd as it relates to his understanding of the people. He explores Hobbes’s fear of the dangers of seditious crowds and the demagogues who claim to represent the people. 9/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Intro Vol. II. Populism proves difficult to define, partly because populists evince different understandings of “the people", liberal, democratic, and national. Untangling these can help us to understand the ideological dynamics of our moment. 8/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Orwin, “God’s Brigands" scrutinizes Josephus’s account of the Jewish people in the Hellenistic world and its many peoples. He discovers antecedents to the modern understanding of the people as the decent class. 7/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Polansky, “Populism and Democratic Conflict: An Aristotelian View" explores the class dynamics of contemporary populism which have become obscured by the theoretical architecture of liberal democracy. 6/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Keum, “Crowds and Crowd Pleasing in Plato” furnishes a theoretical account of Socratic philosophizing with reference to the role played by the audiences of the dialogues, which complicates the question of Plato and Socrates’s assessment of democracy.
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Saxonhouse’s “The Comedy of Crowds” explores Aristophanes’s attempt to educate the Athenian demos. Her Aristophanes raises questions about the pedagogical, even therapeutic role of comedy in democracy. 4/13 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Jaffe, “Vast Personal Forces" interprets Thucydides's account of how democratic citizens experience their regime, identifying a link between freedom and empire in the communitarian experience of power, which remains at play in today's populism. 3/13
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Intro Vol 1. Commentators, scholars, and pundits ignore the history of thought to the detriment of their understanding of populism. The articles here are by American and European scholars with disparate approaches to the history of political thought. 2/13
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As someone who lives/works in Rome on Classics related subjects, I'm having a tough time untangling my propensities.