The American Right’s Cult of Victor Orbán The American Right’s Cult of Victor Orbán
The Hungarian autocrat is proving worryingly influential.
A Working-Class Uprising in Canada? A Working-Class Uprising in Canada?
The organizers and money are from wealthy right-wingers, but the “Freedom Convoy” touches broader popular discontent.
Feb 21, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Terry Teachout and the Last of the Conservative Critics Terry Teachout and the Last of the Conservative Critics
He was a generation younger than Joan Didion and her cohort of critics who got their start at National Review. With his death, their strain of criticism seems not only rare but per...
Jan 20, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer
When Will David Brooks Admit That Conservatism Paved the Way for Trump? When Will David Brooks Admit That Conservatism Paved the Way for Trump?
The New York Times columnist’s nostalgia whitewashes a nastier and much more consequential history.
The Republicans Have Become the Party of Organized Violence The Republicans Have Become the Party of Organized Violence
Right now, the GOP views threats of violence as offering a political advantage with no real downside. Normalization of this behavior by President Biden or the media will only make ...
Mark Zuckerberg Knows Exactly How Bad Facebook Is Mark Zuckerberg Knows Exactly How Bad Facebook Is
Whistleblower testimony proves the social media giant is harmful and dishonest, and can't be trusted to regulate itself.
America’s Afghanistan Amnesia America’s Afghanistan Amnesia
To scapegoat Joe Biden, the national security establishment covered up two decades of lies.
Sep 16, 2021 / Jeet Heer
How Cheerleaders of the Forever Wars Got Away With Murder How Cheerleaders of the Forever Wars Got Away With Murder
In reckoning with post-9/11 fantasies and lies, don’t forget the role of the press.
Sep 4, 2021 / 20 Years of Bloodshed and Delusion / Jeet Heer
Bourdain’s Wake Bourdain’s Wake
How to tell the story of Anthony Bourdain?
Aug 4, 2021 / 2021 Year in Review / Jeet Heer
Like JFK, Biden Has Good Reason to Be Wary of the Military Like JFK, Biden Has Good Reason to Be Wary of the Military
In the 1960s, anti-communism provided an entry point for the far right. Today, it’s opposition to anti-racism.