A collection of 31 posts
Online audiences have become increasingly radicalised by predatory algorithms pushing conspiratorial, schizophrenic narratives and content creators are rewarded for feeding into them.
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
American populism and religion are bound by a shared desire for order in a rapidly changing world.
Liberal democracies need to restore a climate of entrepreneurial opportunity and competition.
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable.
The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right.
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.
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.
The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken.
Right-wing radicals are being punished by voters because they have discarded the foundational principles of conservative philosophy.
To halt the rise of authoritarianism, liberal democracies must restore hope of economic improvement, particularly among the young.