Frontiers of American Reaction The Ruthlessness is the Point: Trumpism and the Ethical Allure of Ruthlessness Donald Trump, and the MAGA movement that has coalesced around him, pose two great puzzles…Joshua ChernissApril 9, 2025
Frontiers of American Reaction Hells Angels in the White House: Trumpism and the Politics of Total Retaliation Consider the sieg-heiling. When Elon Musk threw up his arm at President Trump’s second inauguration,…Susan McWilliams BarndtApril 8, 2025
Illiberal Forces at the Ballot The End of the Postwar Model? Assessing Germany’s 2025 Elections and the Normalization of the Far Right For advocates of political liberalism in the European Union and elsewhere, the early parliamentary elections…Cécile LeconteMarch 7, 2025
Frontiers of American ReactionThe Far-Right Across Borders How ‘Yankee Hindutva’ Became a MAGA Satellite During her confirmation hearing last week, as Tulsi Gabbard sought to beat back doubts over…Usha KumarFebruary 12, 2025
BlogsFrontiers of American Reaction How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party As Donald Trump begins his second term as president, the country and the world are…Joseph CerroneJanuary 21, 2025
BlogsFrontiers of American Reaction Everything has Changed: Surveying the Inauguration Mood and Entrenchment of Trumpism In early 2017, at the beginning of the first Trump administration, I was teaching at…Laura K. FieldJanuary 18, 2025
Political Economy and Illiberalism Dazed and Confused? The Far Right’s Opaque Economic Policies As the world prepares for a second Donald Trump presidency, there is a surprising uncertainty…Alberto PolimeniDecember 3, 2024
Frontiers of American Reaction Trumpism’s New “Lost Cause”: National Myth and the Struggle for America Our country is in the grip of a prolonged crisis which has profoundly shaken our…Richard SlotkinApril 3, 2024
AgoraInterview Bradley Onishi on White Christian Nationalism, Trumpism, and January 6th Thanks for joining us Bradley and congratulations on your book Preparing for War: The Extremist…illiberalism.orgJanuary 22, 2024
Foreign Policy and International AffairsResearchResources Hub Bastiaan van Apeldoorn et al., – Trump and the Remaking of American Grand Strategy: The Shift from Open Door Globalism to Economic Nationalism Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jaša Veselinovič, and Naná de Graaff. 2023. Trump and the Remaking of American…illiberalism.orgJanuary 3, 2024