Nationalist Self-Hatred The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right. Matt Johnson 12 Mar 2024 · 18 min read
Stop Dunking on Trump Supporters No one is beyond reach—unless everyone around them refuses to reach out. Julian Adorney 7 Feb 2024 · 9 min read
Podcast #231: Leaving MAGA Former Trump activist Rich Logis explains why he renounced his former MAGA beliefs—and how he’s helping others exit the movement. Quillette 28 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
A Royal Grift In political terms, the purchasers of Trump’s NFTs are not citizens but subjects. Julia Friedman / David Hawkes 20 May 2023 · 8 min read
Should the GOP Continue to Embrace Populism? Two Responses Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses. Quillette 21 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
Return of the Strong Gods: Understanding the New Right A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil. Jordan Alexander Hill 3 Jan 2021 · 20 min read
Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters A conversation with Jamil Jivani. Quillette 6 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 93: David Frum on His New Book, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America. His new book is Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 4 Jun 2020 · 1 min read
PODCAST 64: Mark Halperin on How to Beat Trump (It Won't be Easy) Veteran Political Pundit Mark Halperin talks to Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay about his new book, How to Beat Trump. He thinks it’s going to be very difficult. Quillette 22 Nov 2019 · 1 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future. Sumantra Maitra 22 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
Jung and the Trumpian Shadow We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. There are monsters inside each of us. Those monsters must be made coherent, and given their place, or they will consume us. Alexander Blum 2 Oct 2017 · 9 min read
The New Trump-ian Order What I have outlined above are valid critiques of Trump’s policies which need to be vigorously pursued through constitutional channels and via Senatorial and Congressional opposition. Sumantra Maitra 22 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
Donald Trump and the Failure of Mainstream Social Science Part III However, if we look to other situations I think there is at least grounds for further reflection. Let’s consider two situations. Uri Harris 16 Nov 2016 · 4 min read
Corporate America’s Old Boys’ Club is Dead and Why Big Business Couldn’t Stop Trump The question is: Is that entirely a good thing? As our research – and Trump’s rise – shows, not necessarily. Johan Chu and Jerry Davis 22 Oct 2016 · 6 min read
What Experts Do and Don't Know Humans around the world have knowledge about many things. Some of it is the kind one might write essays about, or learn about in graduate courses at university. Brendon Brewer 27 Jul 2016 · 7 min read