New piece! Jason Roberts on Frank Herbert's Dune and its reception by the far-right inheritors of Julius Evola's Traditionalist "philosophy." Check it out! Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies illiberalism.org/evola-in-space…

New piece! John S. Huntington on the longstanding political consensus around privatization, and how the illiberal right has come to wield it as a weapon. Check it out! Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies @lkatfield.bsky.social illiberalism.org/one-nation-und…

New piece! Felipe Burbano de Lara on the Ecuadorian election, and the possibility of the victorious right wing moving beyond a politics of mere anti-populism and toward a constructive project. Check it out! illiberalism.org/beyond-anti-po…

New piece! Jonathan Marks (Jonathan Marks) on the merits and limits of Agnes Callard's new book, Open Socrates, and the meaning of politics. Check it out! @lkatfield.bsky.social illiberalism.org/socratizing-po…

New piece! @lkatfield.bsky.social reviews Alexandre Lefebvre's (Alexandre Lefebvre) Liberalism as a Way of Life and discusses meaning-making and pluralism under liberalism. Check it out! illiberalism.org/good-liberals-…

New piece! Christian Ruth on the past and present of monarchical thinking in the United States and its contemporary influence among the tech right and its allies. Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies illiberalism.org/modern-monarch…

New piece! Jacob Ware reviews Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here and Paul Lynch's Prophet Song and addresses the question of authoritarianism's rise in the Anglo world. Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies illiberalism.org/fascism-in-the…

New piece! Matt McManus on the late critic of liberalism and capitalism, Alasdair MacIntyre, his reception on the left and the right, and why contemporary thinkers should take his work to heart. Check it out! illiberalism.org/liberalisms-be…

My tribute to Alasdair MacIntyre for Illiberalism Studies Program

Online first: Julian Waller 📖 in the Journal of Illiberalism Studies on the postliberal ecosystem, its features and development since 2016, and its influence today and in the years to come. Check it out! illiberalism.org/postliberalism…

Today, our director Marlene Laruelle is in Politics and Rights Review with an article on illiberalism, its utility as an analytical category, and how it helps us understand our world today. Check it out! politicsrights.com/why-illiberali…

New piece! Geoffrey Kabaservice (Geoff Kabaservice) on the problems in higher education today, universities' relationship to the public, and reciprocity and civic responsibility. Check it out! Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies @lkatfield.bsky.social illiberalism.org/trump-harvard-…

New piece! Alberto Polimeni on the characteristics, purposes served, and paradoxes of Atreju, the Italian far-right's annual gathering. Check it out! illiberalism.org/atreju-the-ita…

Our director Marlene Laruelle is in Russia.Post with an article on the "Dark Enlightenment," related historical movements in Russia, and the ideological bridges being built between the U.S. and Russia. Check it out! Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies The Russia Program russiapost.info/politics/dark_…

New piece! Charles U. Zug on the right wing's "alternative higher education" programs, their historical antecedents, and their function today. Check it out! @lkatfield.bsky.social illiberalism.org/alt-higher-ed-…