Mistakes of identity

Patterns and platforms in the year of elections.

Ethnographic Map of Europe, Juozas Gabrys, 1918, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston, Mass.

In this week’s Not in Dispatches, I was going to write about India’s election, which saw Narendra Modi’s hopes of a supermajority dashed. But in a week of other extraordinary votes – Mexico on Sunday, South Africa last week, and the EU currently – l…