Meet the Angry, Aggrieved New Right

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 9 a.m.

b'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\\u2019s both?\\n\\nStephanie 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.\\n\\nThis 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 \\u201ccommon good conservatism\\u201d; how the Ron DeSantis \\u201cStop Woke Act\\u201d 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.\\n\\nThis 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.\\n\\nMentioned:\\n\\nMore information about Ezra\\u2019s lecture at UC Berkeley\\n\\n\\u201cThe Lost Boys of the American Right\\u201d by David French\\n\\n\\u201cBoth Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism\\u201d by Stephanie Slade\\n\\nBook Recommendations:\\n\\nRadicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty\\n\\nThe Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor\\n\\nWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy\\n\\nThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.\\n\\nYou can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of \\u201cThe Ezra Klein Show\\u201d at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.\\n\\nThis episode of \\u201cThe Ezra Klein Show\\u201d was produced by Kristin Lin. Fact checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our senior editor is Annie-Rose Strasser. The show\\u2019s production team also includes Emefa Agawu and Rollin Hu. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Sonia Herrero.'