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.
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.
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.
The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra scrubbed the famed composer from an upcoming program, calling his music "inappropriate at this time."
Hungary's Viktor Orbán becomes the latest Kremlin crony to break ranks.
Hungary's brand of nationalism generates not just cronyist domestic policy but tawdry foreign policy as well.
The "good old days" weren't all that good—but they're still messing with politics.
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.
Authoritarians see masculinity as so fragile that it needs to be reinforced by the state.
The two are idolizing the wrong models.
It isn't an embarrassment. It isn't heroism. It just is.
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.
We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.
Their letter to Congress warns about inevitable abuses against religious and racial minorities.
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.
The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.
The scientific and medical knowledge used to develop and distribute the vaccines is not, thankfully, trapped within national borders.
The members of Steve Bannon's international circle share an outlandish spiritual-historic vision, but their threat to liberty is more mundane.
The tech billionaire and his contrarian circle are developing new nationalist visions for America's future.
Via a SuperPAC, Thiel is promoting conservative nationalism via the former Kansas secretary of state and current U.S. Senate contender.
Philosopher Aeon Skoble provides a helpful explanation.
Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
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.
Most immigrants, even more than many natives, viscerally appreciate America, because they know what it's like to live in an unfree country.
One of the internet's most prominent libertarian blogs ends its run. But many of the contributors will continue write elsewhere.
Buttigieg doesn't realize that using the blunt force of government to forge national unity will forever disappoint.
The Dispatch senior editor on the value of liberalism and the problems with the new nationalist right
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.
It will empower the state and will divide rather than unite Americans.
Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution
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 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.
The professor's immigration views are wrong, but removing her would compromise academic freedom.
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.
What does it mean to be an American, and what do individuals owe to the country in which they live?
His case reminds us that the misuse of government power is still the biggest threat to liberty.
If big government is the price of "good outcomes," the American right is increasingly willing to pay it.
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.
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.
From socialism to nationalism, debunked ideologies are making a return.
Nationalists are using food safety arguments to attack ethnic diversity
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.
Us vs. Them author Ian Bremmer says that worldwide populism is a response from people who are being left behind economically.
Free market reformers and authoritarian nationalists battle it out to reshape Brazil.
He's promising voters protection from made-up threats instead of prosperity.
Legal scholar John McGinnis argues the answer is "yes." But the issue is a far closer one than he suggests.