Using Liberal Tools for Illiberal Missions (ULTIM) (2026-2031) Postdoctoral positions The following positions are open for application ( Profiles of the postdoctoral positions: a. Postdoc 1 will fo…

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.

Journal of Illiberalism Studies | Volume 6 No. 2 (Summer 2026)

Amir Barjasteh on how contemporary illiberal actors seek to transform world culture by strategically infusing anti-liberal norms into global institutions and discourses

Pål Kolstø on the work of Russian activists and their involvement with the World Congress of Families to understand their role in exporting illiberal values.

Émilien Houard-Vial on the Les Républicains as a case study for understanding how political actors employ illiberal rhetoric.

Amaury Giraud on the life and work of Jean-Claude Michéa and his intellectual connection to the writing of George Orwell.

Raphaël Demias-Morisset on illiberalism as an evolution of the New Right and a countermovement to progressive neoliberalism.

Aaron Irion on how to think about the prefix "post," postliberalism's relationship to the past, present, and future, and three postliberal potentialities.

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.

By Marlene Laruelle

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.

Graziela Ares shows how Hungary’s Parliament Resolution of 2011 and the subsequent Imre Steindl renovation program have used ostensibly democratic instruments to confiscate the agency over the past an...

Josh Vandiver examines the geopolitical visions of the masculinist right through the lens of strategic culture arguing that the “BAPian masculinists” associated with the pseudonymous Bronze Age Perver...

Christophe Jaffrelot on how Narendra Modi has systematically deployed a “politics of fear,” constructing the Hindu majority as a vulnerable community besieged by Pakistani terrorism, Bangladeshi infil...

Pauline Picco on how Jean-Yves Le Gallou translated the metapolitical constructs of the Nouvelle Droite, including the concept of “preference nationale” and, later, the Great Replacement itself, into ...