New piece! Nathalie Dupont on the rise of American Christian cinema and its mixed successes in reaching broader audiences. @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers! #CFP The Journal of Illiberalism Studies is actively seeking paper submissions exploring the relationship between AI and ideology. Paper proposals due Oct 31. See details here: tinyurl.com/yck9jdtj @raphdemiasmorisset.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

New piece! Chloé Delaporte on the rise of an autonomous Christian film industry in the United States, its connections to the Trump administration, and its attempts to go global. Check it out!

New piece! Stéphane Vibert on the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet, his rejection of teleological history, and “otherness” as a core element of modernity and human sociality. Check it out!

New piece! Travis Quigley on nationalized politics, their detrimental impact on liberal politics, and strategies for restoring a vibrant local politics in the United States. Check it out! www.illiberalism.org/liberalisms-...

ICYMI, the recording of our event on Antiliberal Internationalism is now online. Check it out!

New piece! Stéphane Vibert on the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet, his rejection of teleological history, and “otherness” as a core element of modernity and human sociality. Check it out!

New piece! Guilherme de Queiroz-Stein on the foundations of Jair Bolsonaro's climate policies and the illiberal nature of bolsonarismo, more generally. Check it out!

New piece! Zorzeta Bakaki on the role of emotions in environmental politics and policy, and why policymakers must learn to identify, engage with, and ethically respond to the emotional landscapes of their constituents. Check it out!

Current Readings: "Looking around at environmental decay, mass inequality, and political instability, it is hard to see how people can still abide by the conviction that capitalism is the best we can do," writes Matt McManus (@mattpolprof.bsky.social) for @illsp.bsky.social.

New piece! Matt McManus revisits Marx's relationship with liberalism and attempts to rescue the best elements of the Marxist critique. Check it out! @mattpolprof.bsky.social

Happening tomorrow! Don't forget to register for our roundtable on Antiliberal Internationalism, a new volume exploring how the international sphere, both historically and today, influences antiliberalism. You won't want to miss it! Register: tinyurl.com/mpkprrrm

New interview! Hiroshi Motomura discusses American immigration policy historically and today, the Trump administration's actions, and illiberalism. Give it a read! @law.ucla.edu

New piece! Vincent Guillon on France’s National Rally party, its illiberalism, and how it uses culture as a tool for nationalism and censorship. Check it out!

Join us online on Sept 3 for a roundtable on Antiliberal Internationalism, a new volume concerned with how the international sphere, historically and today, shapes antiliberalism. You won't want to miss it! Register here: tinyurl.com/mpkprrrm @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

New piece! Joël E. Schnapp on the religious dimensions of MAGA ideology and the biblical references, analogies, and iconography attached to Donald Trump. Check it out!

New piece! Ellie Martus on Russia's environmental politics and the similarities and differences between democratic and authoritarian climate policymaking. Check it out!

New piece! Michael Bilica on the roots and character of the Alt-right phenomenon Gamergate, and its legacy today. Check it out!

New post! We republish Laura K. Field's Le Monde op-ed on the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and why Donald Trump's grip on Republican Party elites is more complicated than it may appear. Check it out! @english.lemonde.fr

New post! We republish Laura K. Field's Le Monde op-ed on the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and why Donald Trump's grip on Republican Party elites is more complicated than it may appear. Check it out! @english.lemonde.fr

Had an all too timely discussion with GWU’s Illiberalism Studies Program about the long historical right-wing love affair with protectionism - and the left-wing internationalists that opposed it.

New interview! Marc-William Palen on his book Pax Economica, left-wing visions for a free trade world, and the contemporary right's attack on the same. Give it a read! @mwpalen.bsky.social

Very happy to see this one out, as a prelude to the special issue I am currently co-editing with Camil Ungureanu. What is up with the center-right parties and the environment? Is there a prospect of a right-wing ecology that is not instrumental nor simply parroting the far-right ecologist points?

Series Launch: Illiberalism and the Environment. This series studies environmental issues and the diverse ideological responses to them, from left and right. It is led by our team alongside Erik Swyngedouw and Paula Ganga. The first papers are published in the thread below!

Exciting news: GOD, GUNS, and SEDITION is out today in paperback! My @cfr.org and @columbiaup.bsky.social book, co-authored with @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social, tells the story of far-right terrorism in America and beyond—a topic that sadly remains as relevant as ever. bookshop.org/p/books/god-...

New piece! Anna Wójcik on the results of Poland’s presidential election, the factors that influenced the outcome, and the turbulent period of cohabitation ahead. Check it out! @annawojcik.bsky.social

New piece! Joshua Tait on the New Right's embrace of Caesarism, their proximity to the Trump administration, and the theoretical antecedents of the trend. Check it out! @joshuatait.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

New interview! Alison Brysk discusses her book Abortion Rights Backlash, plus globalization, nationalism, and humanitarianism. Give it a read!

Last week, our director Marlene Laruelle was interviewed as part of Le Monde's investigation into illiberal leaders around the globe and the foundations of their success. Check it out! @lemonde.fr

New piece! Elisabeth Zerofsky on the European far right's relationship to antisemitism and Israel today, and how it squares with their xenophobic politics. Check it out!

New piece! Matthew McManus on the radical philosophies and politics of Nietzsche and Heidegger, their critique of liberalism, and countering their intellectual progeny today. Check it out! @mattpolprof.bsky.social

New piece! Laurențiu Pleșca on Romania's recent elections, the fragility and resilience of liberalism in Eastern Europe, and geopolitical continuity and rupture. Check it out! @gmfus.bsky.social

New post! We republish Laura K Field's article in Verfassungsblog, which explores the tensions between traditionally conservative jurisprudence and the Trumpist New Right's legal philosophy. Check it out! @lkatfield.bsky.social @verfassungsblog.de

New paper! Erik Piccoli on the transnational dimensions of Italian neofascism during the Cold War, and how the same foreign-domestic dynamics are shaping the Italian far right today. Check it out!

New piece! Mario Peucker on the social drivers and embeddedness of far-right attitudes in our societies, and strategies to counter the far right's appeal. Check it out! @mariopeucker.bsky.social

New piece! Arnaud Miranda on the origins and features of Curtis Yarvin's neoreactionary political theory, and its relationship to the Trump administration. Check it out!

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

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! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

New piece! Alberto Polimeni on the characteristics, purposes served by, and paradoxes of Atreju, the Italian far-right's annual gathering. Check it out!

New piece! Geoffrey Kabaservice on the problems in higher education today, universities' relationship to the public, and reciprocity and civic responsibility. Check it out! @lkatfield.bsky.social

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! @polrightsrev.bsky.social

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!

New piece! @mattpolprof.bsky.social 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!

New piece! @jacobware.bsky.social 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. @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

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. @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

New piece! Laura K. Field reviews Alexandre Lefebvre's Liberalism as a Way of Life and discusses meaning-making and pluralism under liberalism. Check it out! @lkatfield.bsky.social @lefebvrealex.bsky.social

New piece! Jonathan Marks on the merits and limits of Agnes Callard's new book, Open Socrates, and the meaning of politics. Check it out! @marksjo1.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

New piece! Felipe Burbano de Lara on the context for and results of 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! @flacsoecuador.bsky.social

New piece! @johnshuntington.bsky.social on the longstanding political consensus around privatization, and how the illiberal right has come to wield it as a weapon. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

New piece! Olivier Roy on the realignment of right wing politics in the #UnitedStates and #Europe around novel values and the contradictions between different camps on the right. @ieres-gwu.bsky.social