In 1938 humans were offered three global stories to choose from, in 1968 just two, and in 1998 a single story seemed to prevail. In 2018 we are down to zero. No wonder that the liberal elites, who dominated much of the world in recent decades, are in a state of shock and disorientation. To have one story is the most reassuring situation of all.

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In 2025, Media Matters conducted a survey that indicated roughly 9 out of 10 channels on alt-media are conservative-leaning. (I would dispute the methods of categorization used in this study but the general assessment is correct: alt-media is overwhelmingly right-wing.) Many progressives will read the widely circulated Media Matters study as an... See more

In the past decade, liberalism has taken a beating from both sides of the political spectrum. Its critics to the left view its measured gradualism as incommensurate to the present’s multiple emergencies: climate change, inequality, the rise of an ethno-nationalist right. Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has... See more