Global Turn: Illiberalism and the Global SouthIlliberal Forces at the Ballot Lula Is Back: Illiberalism Can Be Defeated A month ago, few people in Brasília would have predicted this. Flávio Bolsonaro came out…Manuel AnselmiNovember 3, 2026
Frontiers of American Reaction “An Avalanche of Storytelling”: The White Supremacist Plan to Save the West with White Advocacy Fiction In the battle for American attention, reality faces some major challenges. Far-right governors like Ron…Laura JeffriesOctober 27, 2026
Frontiers of American Reaction A Fusionist Future? Not So Fast! Reviewed: Stephanie Slade, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right (University of…Matthew McManusOctober 20, 2026
Frontiers of American Reaction “If We Do Nothing”: White Supremacist Book Reviews and the Response to Ethnonationalist Propaganda Many Americans and some Europeans will now recognize the name of Trump’s recently fired “Border…Laura JeffriesOctober 13, 2026
Frontiers of American Reaction “All things fall and are built again”: Grievance Poetry and White Nationalist Culture Building Texts of nearly all genres are employed in the far right’s mythopoetic process—that is, their…Laura JeffriesSeptember 29, 2026
AI, Technology, and IlliberalismFrontiers of American ReactionNeoliberalism and Illiberalism Imperial State Capitalism: Fusing State Ownership with Frontier Tech Power In a detail almost too strange for satire, a Silicon Valley billionaire recently called for…Ilias AlamiSeptember 22, 2026
Illiberal EuropePolitics The Three Thresholds Crossed by the AfD Victory The article was originally published on Marlene Laruelle’s Substack, Vivatopia. Germany was supposed to be the country where…Marlene LaruelleSeptember 16, 2026
Frontiers of American Reaction Making and Manipulating Cultural Texts in Far-Right World-Building This is the introductory piece for a new, special series for Frontiers of American Reaction.…Laura JeffriesSeptember 15, 2026
Illiberal EuropePolitics Opposition Without Substance: The Failures of Hungary’s Antipolitical Left In April, Hungary’s center-right Tisza party accomplished what the leftist opposition had been unable to…Beni KovacsSeptember 10, 2026
Frontiers of American Reaction Inheriting the Protocols: The ZOG Myth in Contemporary Political Discourse Upon losing the primary race for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, incumbent U.S. House Representative Thomas…Alexander LowieSeptember 8, 2026