How to Sway a Baboon Despot
What other species can teach us about democracy
Emore than 70 years after its publication, George Orwell’s on ’s best-seller list. A writer for the New York declared the novel—an allegory involving a government run by pigs—a “guidepost” for politics in the age of Donald Trump. A growing body of research, however, suggests that animals may offer political lessons that are more than allegorical: Many make decisions using familiar political systems, from autocracy to democracy. How these
