Meet the ‘Angry, Aggrieved’ New Right

<p>The New Right has been associated with everyone from Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri to right-wing influencers and Catholic integralists. The breadth of the term can make it hard to define: Is the New Right a budding ideological movement or a toxic online subculture? What does it mean if it’s both?</p><p>Stephanie Slade is a senior editor at the magazine Reason, and has covered the New Right extensively. She argues that the New Right subverts the conventional left/right political binary and is better understood as the illiberal backlash to classical liberalism.</p><p>This conversation is a tour of the New Right. The guest host, David French, talks to Slade about the politicians who have been attached to the ideological movement; why the New Right is critical of Reaganism; her problems with its self-branding as “common good conservatism”; how the Ron DeSantis “Stop Woke Act” signals a diversion from conservative free speech values; why the New Right is so angry; how online factions of the New Right are often in a delicate dance between flirting with bigotry and actually aligning with the provocative beliefs they post; why Catholic integralism matters, even if the average Catholic might have never heard of the ideology; and much more.</p><p><i>This episode was hosted by David French, an Opinion columnist at The New York Times. Previously, he was a senior editor and co-founder of The Dispatch and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.</i></p><p>Mentioned:</p><p><a href="https://calperformances.org/events/2023-24/speakers/ezra-klein/" target="_blank">More information about Ezra’s lecture at UC Berkeley</a></p><p>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/masculinity-right-young-men.html" target="_blank">The Lost Boys of the American Right</a>” by David French</p><p>“<a href="https://reason.com/2022/09/13/the-authoritarian-convergence/" target="_blank">Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism</a>” by Stephanie Slade</p><p>Book Recommendations:</p><p><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com