A World after Liberalism

Matthew Rose – director of the Barry Center on the University and Intellectual Life at the Morningside Institute – offers a concise but illuminating history of far-right ideology. Rose discusses the writings of five ideologues who fuel the populism and nativism of today’s post-Christian conservatism.

For decades, Western conservatism rested on the tenets of individual freedom, limited government and free trade. But in 2016, a tidal wave of dissent washed away this traditional definition of conservatism. The pushback came from the political right in Western democracies. The new right’s ideology rethinks nationalism, populism and identity politics, with many alt-right adherents openly hostile to religion.