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