Laura Jeffries continues her dive into the mythopoetics of the far right, looking at the white nationalist poetry of Mark Mazari.

Ilias Alami unpacks the drive towards state ownership in critical sectors today, and details its relationship with the reconfiguration of empire.

Marlene Laruelle on the AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt and the deeper dynamics that undergird its rise in popularity as a viable political option.

Laura Jeffries introduces a new series on cultural production, far-right world-building, and necessity of defending the arts.

Beni Kovacs on the Hungarian left's legacy preference for antipolitics and its ensuing inefficacy at competing in political elections.

Alexander Lowie examines how antisemitic tropes and conspiracies of old are translated into new political vocabularies, suggesting that identifying "ZOG-whistles" is critically important today.

Evie Levin on how colorblindness was weaponized by the liberal state during the Cold War, and how the fight for civil rights is still impacted by this legacy today.

James Rosenberg on the pillars that make Singapore as a real-world example of digital illiberal governance

Jesse Russell on accusations of "cultural marxism," the Frankfurt School and its critics, and our present moment.

Pauline Picco on how French billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin is investing in education, culture, and Catholic traditionalist networks to advance a far-right metapolitical project aimed at reshaping F...

Sébastien Broca on the Ideological Realignment of Big Tech and the Emergence of a New Phase of Digital Capitalism.

Marlene Laruelle draw out five takeaways from the field of illiberalism studies, showing how illiberalism grows through everyday life, shared values, and the internal contradictions of liberalism.

Matt Sleat discusses post-liberals' conception of the common good and their political aims, post-liberalism's conflation of liberalism and modernity, and a liberal path forward.

Paul Vacca explores how science fiction provides the basis for Elon Musk's unique approach to acquiring evermore political and economic power.

Any path forward for the movement starts with hard questions.

Matt Sleat discusses post-liberals' conception of the common good and their political aims, post-liberalism's conflation of liberalism and modernity, and a liberal path forward.

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Erin Lockwood on the vulnerabilities of the liberal international order, what characterizes America's "Trump first" foreign policy, and the unpredictability of what comes next.

The Illiberalism Studies Program presents this short collection of essays from our “Frontiers of American Reaction” series. These essays, published between 2022 and 2026, take stock of the cultural, p...

Eliza Fisher looks at the writing of Alfred Kentigern Siewers to understand the Reactive Orthodoxy movement and its vision of America.

Arnaud Miranda on Neo-Reactionary Thought, its Origins, and its Tensions Within MAGA.

Ali Rıza Taşkale on SpaceX's questionable valuation, and how science fiction is being materialized as a transformation of empire.

Sarah Rodriguez-Louette looks at the rise of astrology within the MAGA movement online and how it bolsters support for Trump's war in Iran.

Giving an interview to the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Professor Marlene Laruelle, Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at

Beni Kovacs on the national conservative vision casting the EU as a decaying liberal empire that informs Trump’s foreign policy approach and its anti-European turn.

Raphaël Demias-Morisset on the New Right’s technological turn conditionally embracing AI as a geopolitical imperative and a tool for reshaping society—revealing a deeper coherence between illiberal po...

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Joël E. Schnapp analyzes Trump's eschatological rhetoric and how it is now being used against him by many of his former allies and supporters.

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Colin Flint on the Trump Administration's foreign policy approach and its overarching rejection of the liberal internationalism of the post-Cold War order.

A photo investigation by Le Grand Continent looking at the use of religious symbolism by Trump and his administration.

Shikha Dalmia on Libertarianism and the Possibility of an American Liberal Political Coalition.

Giovanni Orsina investigates the nature of Giorgia Meloni's political project and evaluates her time in power.

Matthew McManus reviews Samuel Moyn's Gerontocracy in America, praising its core claims and prescriptions and lingering on its existential themes.

The CCP’s green-intelligence synthesis is not simply a Chinese project. It is an intensified version of a broader political temptation: treating social and moral problems as systems to be optimized.

Ezequiel Saferstein on the rise of Agustín Laje and his influence as a major intellectual figure in the transnational Spanish-speaking radical right.

Natalie Le Clue discusses how the toxic and moralized norms of political online communities produces loyalty and motivates real-world political action.

Henry Tonks on liberalism's postwar transformation, its policy stasis, and the rise of the illiberal right.

Marlene Laruelle on the results of the Hungarian election and what comes after illiberalism once illiberal leaders are removed from power.

Harith Hasan discusses the politicization of sectarian identities in the Middle East, the relationship between authoritarian leaders and neoliberalism, and more.

Kosta Bovan on how 4chan users mobilized their understanding of the political landscape on the internet to normalize their extreme ideas.