Watch: Populist Leaders Keep Their Populations in Anxiety Which Helps Them Establish Power

The power elite is getting smaller and smaller, and decisions are no longer taken after democratic consultation, according to Homi K. Bhabha, professor of humanities at Harvard University. What we get is, therefore, the ‘Unprepared Citizen’, who is told about decisions at short notice, he says in this interview with The Wire, a sweeping look at the state of populist democracy all over the world.