The power of big corporations and other large private interests has attracted more attention from within a conservatism that’s refining or redefining itself, occasionally contentiously. For example, Compact magazine cofounder and editor Sohrab Ahmari explores private tyranny and countervailing power in his new book Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do…| American Affairs Journal
Samuel Moyn’s latest book, Liberalism against Itself, begins and ends by invoking my 2018 book, Why Liberalism Failed. Moyn employs my book as a bookend in order to refute its thesis: “liberalism failed because it has succeeded.” Moyn seeks to counter, in effect, “liberalism has failed until now because it hasn’t really been tried.” In spite of a fundamentally opposite view of how to understand the current travails of the liberal order, Moyn and I, and our respective books, shar...| American Affairs Journal
“They’re not all crypto-fascists and right-wing nut jobs,” comments Kendall Roy, the scion of his late father’s media empire on the show Succession, the night before he and his kid brother enthrone a politician answering to that description as America’s newest president. “We also have some venture capital Dems and centrist ghouls. Dad’s ideological range was . . . wide.” So was the ideological range of the Republican Party over the last fifty years. And so it still is...| American Affairs Journal
Gone are the days when corporate giving was confined to Little League, food banks, and other traditional causes. On today’s corporate websites, politically charged initiatives to end social or economic “inequity” or advance racial or environmental “justice” have largely replaced references to noncontroversial charities serving the common good. From the 1960s until a decade or…| American Affairs Journal
Population aging is proceeding apace across the world, but there is little agreement on what to do about it or even whether it is a bad thing at all. On the upside, older, smaller societies will have a correspondingly smaller climate impact, will be able to invest more per child, and will suffer less congestion…| American Affairs Journal
On September 11, 2023, Chile marked the fiftieth anniversary of the bloody military coup that toppled Socialist president Salvador Allende and installed General Augusto Pinochet, who presided over nearly two decades marked by human rights abuses and radical economic reforms, making the country a laboratory for neoliberal policies...| American Affairs Journal