The Natcon About-Face
By going from purging anyone who does not pledge allegiance to the nationalist agenda to welcoming all comers, natcons have abandoned the original defining characteristic of their movement.
Nationalism
Opposing War With Russia Doesn't Require Excusing Putin's Aggression
It's far too easy to find glowing descriptions of Putin on the nationalist right. Even some libertarians are making excuses for Russia's invasion. They should stop.
Tchaikovsky Is Canceled
The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra scrubbed the famed composer from an upcoming program, calling his music "inappropriate at this time."
Putin's Aggression Is Isolating the New Nationalists
Hungary's Viktor Orbán becomes the latest Kremlin crony to break ranks.
Hungarian Nationalism Is a Dead End
Hungary's brand of nationalism generates not just cronyist domestic policy but tawdry foreign policy as well.
False Nostalgia
The "good old days" weren't all that good—but they're still messing with politics.
Politics Is Rotting Brains and Making Everyone Mad
As exciting as it may sound to grab power and vanquish enemies, the only way to save America is to recommit to its original principles.
Sen. Josh Hawley Joins Chinese Communists in Fretting Over Manhood
Authoritarians see masculinity as so fragile that it needs to be reinforced by the state.
Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Denmark. Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Hungary.
The two are idolizing the wrong models.
Simone Biles Doesn't Exist To Make America Proud
It isn't an embarrassment. It isn't heroism. It just is.
Against National Unity
Americans are divided not because politicians failed to pronounce the correct phrases, but because we genuinely disagree on questions of public policy, justice, and identity.
Nationalist Conservatives Are Abandoning the Ideas of Liberty
We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.
More than 100 Civil Rights Groups Agree: We Don't Need New Domestic Terrorism Laws
Their letter to Congress warns about inevitable abuses against religious and racial minorities.
Nationalists, not Immigrants, are the Real Threat to Liberal Democratic Institutions
It is often argued that we need to restrict immigration in order to protect democratic institutions. But ethno-nationalist immigration restrictionists are a much bigger threat to those institutions than immigrants.
Arizona's GOP Has Become a Trump Cult
The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.
Like COVID-19 Vaccines? Thank Globalization!
The scientific and medical knowledge used to develop and distribute the vaccines is not, thankfully, trapped within national borders.
The Nationalism-ists
The members of Steve Bannon's international circle share an outlandish spiritual-historic vision, but their threat to liberty is more mundane.
Wait, Wasn't Peter Thiel a Libertarian?
The tech billionaire and his contrarian circle are developing new nationalist visions for America's future.
Immigration Hawk Kris Kobach's Senate Campaign Is Heavily Supported by Peter Thiel
Via a SuperPAC, Thiel is promoting conservative nationalism via the former Kansas secretary of state and current U.S. Senate contender.
Why the "No True Scotsman Fallacy" isn't Always a Fallacy
Philosopher Aeon Skoble provides a helpful explanation.
Trump's Trade War Made the Pandemic Worse, and Nationalism Will Slow the Recovery
Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
Two Reflections on the American Revolution
I recapitulate why it's important that the American Revolution was not an ethno-nationalist secession movement, and address claims that history would have taken a better course had the Revolution been defeated or never happened.
India's New Nationalism, and Ours
Most immigrants, even more than many natives, viscerally appreciate America, because they know what it's like to live in an unfree country.
Farewell to the "Bleeding Heart Libertarians" Blog
One of the internet's most prominent libertarian blogs ends its run. But many of the contributors will continue write elsewhere.
Mayor Pete's 'National Service' Plan Was a Nationalist Fantasy
Buttigieg doesn't realize that using the blunt force of government to forge national unity will forever disappoint.
David French: 'I Think the Protection of Liberty Is a Common Good'
The Dispatch senior editor on the value of liberalism and the problems with the new nationalist right
Coronavirus Gives the Illiberal Right Fever Dreams of Power
Hungary's Viktor Orbán consolidates power, Harvard's Adrian Vermeule fantasizes about wielding it, and many of those who oppose authoritarian conservativism beg Donald Trump to close the country down.
The New Right-Wing Program of Cultural Nationalism Is Un-American and Illiberal
It will empower the state and will divide rather than unite Americans.
Against the New Nationalism
Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution
Why the 70th Anniversary of the Establishment of the People's Republic of China Should be a Day of Mourning
The PRC committed the biggest mass murder in the history of the world, and numerous other atrocities and human rights violations, some of which go on at this very moment.
The Perils of Zero-Sum Worldviews Revisited
The El Paso shooter's combination of anti-capitalism, bigotry, and xenophobic nationalism highlights the dangers of zero-sum thinking on left and right. His worldview resembles that of the perpetrator of a similar attack in New Zealand earlier this year. Sadly, these ideas are not confined to a few extremists.
Penn Law Should Not Fire Amy Wax
The professor's immigration views are wrong, but removing her would compromise academic freedom.
White Identity Politics, Not Trump's Racist Tweets, Is National Conservatism's Real Problem
The debate over Donald Trump's "go back" tweets regarding four minority Democratic members of Congress has centered on the unmistakably bigoted words that he wrote, but has missed the deeper point.
National Conservatism and the American Identity Crisis
What does it mean to be an American, and what do individuals owe to the country in which they live?
Corey Atchison Freed After Serving 28 Years for a Murder He Didn't Commit
His case reminds us that the misuse of government power is still the biggest threat to liberty.
The New Conservative Nationalism Is About Subverting Individual Liberty
If big government is the price of "good outcomes," the American right is increasingly willing to pay it.
The Universalist Principles of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence advocates a polity based on universal principles of liberty and equality, not ethnic nationalism. We would do well to remember those principles to day.
Trump's Militarized Fourth of July Parade Makes America Less Great
We're getting a military parade because Donald Trump wants one. The arguments for leaving our tanks at their bases are far more numerous, significant, and powerful.
Bad Ideas Are Spreading Like the Plague
From socialism to nationalism, debunked ideologies are making a return.
Don't Let Food Nationalism Spoil Your Meal
Nationalists are using food safety arguments to attack ethnic diversity
Rising Conservatives Are as Hostile to Freedom as the Leftists They Disdain
Republicans, who have gleefully warned the public about Democratic flirtations with socialism, shouldn't be quick to gloat given the emergence of an anti-freedom movement on the Right.
Understanding the Failure of 'Globalism' Is Key to Understanding Donald Trump's Appeal
Us vs. Them author Ian Bremmer says that worldwide populism is a response from people who are being left behind economically.
Libertarians Forged an Alliance With Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Was It a Deal With the Devil?
Free market reformers and authoritarian nationalists battle it out to reshape Brazil.
India's Prime Minister Plays the Fear Card After Botching Economic Reforms
He's promising voters protection from made-up threats instead of prosperity.
Does the US Constitution Offer Stronger Protection Against Right-Wing Populism than Left-Wing Populism?
Legal scholar John McGinnis argues the answer is "yes." But the issue is a far closer one than he suggests.