American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order, by Jerome Copulsky. Yale University Press, 384 pp., $40.00. Liberalism, postliberalism, illiberalism, anti-liberalism. Christian nationalism, American nationalism, protectionism, national-conservatism, integralism, accelerationism, neoreaction, fascism. Far right, hard right, tech right, trad right, New Right. MAGA, MAHA, Musk. The current era of discontented ideological flux in America is replete with…
Across modern American history, our elites have shown a soft-spot for authoritarian leaders abroad. Some have even mused about such models bearing fruit closer to home. Although this pattern includes dictatorships representing all sorts of ideologies, Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of The National Interest has chosen the Right as his focus in America Last: The Rightโs…