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Jason Frank is the Robert J. Katz Chair of Government at Cornell University, where he teaches political theory. He is the author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America, Publius and Political Imagination, and the editor of A Political Companion to Herman Melville.
The charge of populism says at least as much about those making it as it does about their opponents.
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