populism - Quillette

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 · 15 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 · 10 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 · 7 min read

Why isn’t Jordan Peterson on This List of the World’s Top Fifty Intellectuals?

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

26 Jul 2019 · 17 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

Quillette Podcast 16 – Matthew Goodwin on Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populism

Quillette

14 Feb 2019 ·

We Need Guidelines for Working with Men, but Not the APA Guidelines

This outcome highlights an alarming gender difference in outcome that should galvanise psychologists to take gender-sensitivity very seriously indeed.

John Barry

13 Feb 2019 · 4 min read

What Happened When We Tried to Debate Immigration

Unless we find a way of side-stepping the extremes and debating these issues in an evidence-led, analytical way then the moderate.

Matthew Goodwin and Eric Kaufmann

8 Dec 2018 · 16 min read

The Divided Kingdom

A belief in democracy, in the capacity for governance among “ordinary people,” and a distrust of cognitive elites is what definitively sets populists apart from fascists.

Helen Dale

4 Dec 2018 · 15 min read

Populism and Nostalgia's False Promise

Fear of individual and cultural extinction is both a cause and a product of the nostalgia so widespread in both Europe and America today.

Henry George

13 Nov 2017 · 10 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