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Chantal Mouffe

Chantal Mouffe is professor of political theory at the University of Westminster

May 2020

  • Healthcare workers protest against the handling of the coronavirus crisis in Liège, Belgium, May 2020

    Humans are not resources. Coronavirus shows why we must democratise work

    Nancy Fraser, Susan Neiman , Chantal Mouffe, Saskia Sassen, Jan-Werner Müller, Dani Rodrik, Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman, Ha-Joon Chang, and many others
    Our health and lives cannot be ruled by market forces alone. Now thousands of scholars are calling for a way out of the crisis, say Chantal Mouffe, Thomas Piketty and many others

October 2019

  • Pro- and anti-Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in London.

    Centrist politics will not defeat Boris Johnson’s rightwing populism

    Chantal Mouffe
    Democratic politics always involves ‘us’ against ‘them’ – so the way to fight the populist right is to build a bigger ‘us’, says Chantal Mouffe, professor of political theory at the University of Westminster

September 2018

  • Illustration by Dom McKenzie.

    Populists are on the rise but this can be a moment for progressives too

    Chantal Mouffe
    Neoliberalism has created genuine grievances that the radical right has exploited. The left must find a new way to articulate them, says political theorist Chantal Mouffe

December 2016

  • Jeremy Corbyn.

    The panel
    What should Jeremy Corbyn’s brand of leftwing populism look like?

    Yanis Varoufakis, Maya Goodfellow, Mark Seddon, Aditya Chakrabortty, Chantal Mouffe, Ayesha Hazarika and Rafael Behr
    Our writers discuss Labour’s plans to relaunch the party leader in the new year to ride the anti-establishment wave
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