Nationalist Self-Hatred The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right. Matt Johnson 12 Mar 2024 · 18 min read
Debating the New Elite A Prospect magazine debate at Conway Hall pitched the Anywheres, represented by former Times columnist David Aaronovitch, against the Somewheres, represented by postliberal academic Matthew Goodwin. John Lloyd 20 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
America Doesn’t Need Regime Change Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right. Damon Linker 6 Jun 2023 · 16 min read
Democracy’s Trenches The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken. John Lloyd 4 Jan 2023 · 11 min read
Conservatism in an Era Of Populist Revolt Right-wing radicals are being punished by voters because they have discarded the foundational principles of conservative philosophy. Bo Winegard 13 Dec 2022 · 11 min read
Three Paths to Despotism To halt the rise of authoritarianism, liberal democracies must restore hope of economic improvement, particularly among the young. Joel Kotkin 8 Oct 2022 · 14 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
20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing Hungarian politics is usually much less ideological than you think. Erik D'Amato 13 Aug 2021 · 12 min read
The Failure of Fusionism The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism. Grant Wyeth 13 Sep 2020 · 12 min read
Economic Inequality—Populism’s Rallying Cry The inequality narrative’s major flaw is that it fails to assess the only dimension of prosperity that really matters, absolute prosperity, choosing instead to focus on relative prosperity. Jordan Alexander Hill 17 Dec 2019 · 19 min read
Common-Good Capitalism: Populism With a Twist Embrace flexibility, encourage workers to look outside of work for their happiness, fulfillment, and ultimately their dignity. Maggie Selner 5 Dec 2019 · 12 min read
Michel Houellebecq: Populism's Prophet Populism has been unpacked, dissected, defined, and analysed, and the results have all been discouraging. G. Gavin Collins 19 Sep 2019 · 16 min read
Why isn’t Jordan Peterson on This List of the World’s Top Fifty Intellectuals? What is worse, it is in denial about how little power and influence it has outside of a few institutions, whose reputations suffer as they grow increasingly narrow-minded and mediocre. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 26 Jul 2019 · 18 min read
Why the American Left Should Embrace Effective Altruism over Provincial Populism Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us. Matt Johnson 27 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground. Joe Hefferon 20 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
