David Ost is the author of Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Reform and Opposition in Poland Since 1968 (Temple University Press 1990) and The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe (Cornell University Press 2005) and co-editor of Workers after Workers' States: Labor and Politics in Postcommunist Eastern Europe (Rowman & Littlefield 2001). Ost has also recently published articles in magazines including The Nation, Dissent, and Tikkun, and is an editor and author of “Class After Communism”, a special issue of East European Politics and Societies (vol.29, nr.3). He is working on a new book, Red Pill Politics: Right-Wing Populism from Fascism to Today (forthcoming from The New Press, 2025).