Three Paths to Despotism
To halt the rise of authoritarianism, liberal democracies must restore hope of economic improvement, particularly among the young.
Joel Kotkin
· 14 min read
populism
A collection of 32 posts
Should the GOP Continue to Embrace Populism? Two Responses
Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses.
Quillette
· 8 min read
20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing
Hungarian politics is usually much less ideological than you think.
Erik D'Amato
· 12 min read
The Contradiction That Broke the Modern Right
The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism.
Grant Wyeth
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 16 – Matthew Goodwin on Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populism
Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberalism, about Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in Europe and America, and what its impact is likely to be on the future of social
Quillette
· 1 min read
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
· 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, Eric Kaufmann
· 17 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
· 15 min read
As a Toronto Mob Brays, David Frum and Steve Bannon Joust over Populism’s Split Soul
Is populism a polite synonym for xenophobia—or a righteous movement to wrest power from elites?
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read