After Populism and the Pandemic

‘The Security of the People’, Works Progress Administration (WPA) Mural by Seymour Fogel, 1942. (Photo by VCG Wilson / Corbis via Getty Images.)
The pandemic signalled the end of one era, and the beginning of another. While the collapse of the markets in 2008 exposed the decay in neoliberalism — and led to a rise in anti-austerity movements — the Covid-19 outbreak made clear that a model of politics and economics had reached the end of its road. […]