What If There Is No Meritocracy?
The realization that life isn’t as fair as democracy obliges us to pretend it is ought to cool populist passions rather than intensifying them.
Populism
Washington’s Whistleblower Show: On Free Enterprise, the Right Turns Left
The populist Right’s infatuation with slaying the Facebook dragon is asinine. The government is not going to remedy what’s wrong with our culture.
Huey Long Was Wrong
The Louisiana politician is unworthy of the admiration he gets from the left — and, increasingly, from the right.
J. D. Vance and the American Dream
Some questions for the national populists.
To Recover Patriotism, America Needs Mishpocheh
A review of Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes, by Steven B. Smith.
Learning from Populist Movements of the Past
A review of In Defense of Populism: Protest and American Democracy, by Donald T. Critchlow.
Tuna Tartare, Grey Poupon, and . . . Broccoli?
More on the politics and rhetoric of populism.
Voices from Philistia
Notes on the politics and rhetoric of populism: then, now, and always.
