With the eruption of populism across the globe that is throwing liberal democratic values into a disarray, there is an urgent need for holistically making sense of HOW the intersection between economic, social, cultural & psychological forces is colliding to produce the phenomenon that is being expressed now & HOW it can be addressed in order to create the vision of society that we believe in. Despite the need, discussions are becoming more and more polarized, busy taking sides rather than taking a step back & seeing the whole: WHAT is happening, WHY it is happening & HOW we can move forward.​ ROOTS OF POPULISM, a collection of essays by interdisciplinary thinker & essayist Jayon You, delineates HOW the intersection between different forces is colliding to fuel the phenomenon of populism that is being expressed now & HOW it can be addressed in order to create vision of a society that we believe in. ​ She clarifies that the values of equality, inclusion, justice & fairness are neither the Left nor  the Right ideal but the UNIVERSAL ideal — the source of unity — under which different ways of achieving these ideals can be debated & discussed; ​​​