Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap
Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
Tomislav Kardum
· 7 min read
The New Right
A collection of 21 posts
A Story Spiked
Bari Weiss’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a 60 Minutes exposé on migrants imprisoned in El Salvador raises troubling questions about editorial independence at CBS News.
Cathy Young
· 18 min read
Weimar Vibes
The fate of the Weimar Republic stands as a warning of what happens when societies and their citizens indulge extremism.
Shalom Lappin
· 18 min read
The New Speech Wars
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
Cathy Young
· 12 min read
MAGA’s Weak Gods
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
Matt Johnson
· 23 min read
The Post-Kirk Clampdown
The current frenzy of right-wing cancel culture recalls the progressive lunacy that followed the murder of George Floyd. But the current iteration is more dangerous because it is backed by state power.
Patrick Frey
· 22 min read
The Neo-Romantic Revolt
The rise of a three-pronged politics of unreason.
Shalom Lappin
· 14 min read
The Deformist Tendency
A new book presents a cogent diagnosis of the ills plaguing American society, but also reactionary prescriptions for ameliorating them.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Sol Stern 1935–2025
A tribute to a brilliant writer and a journalist of great integrity and candour.
Ronald Radosh
· 14 min read
Out with the Old...
Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.
John Lloyd
· 7 min read
Christopher Rufo’s Pyrrhic Victory
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Matt Johnson
· 20 min read
Justice or a Democratic Scandal?
A French criminal court ruling forbidding Marine Le Pen from contesting the 2027 presidential election could throw the country into turmoil.
John Lloyd
· 6 min read
Ukraine’s Terrible Choice
After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.
John Lloyd
· 16 min read
The Hard and Soft New Right
In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
Europe Awaits Trump II
The president-elect’s arrival in the White House will likely galvanise the European New Right and doom the Ukrainian resistance.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read