If your religion-focused theory of left and right has grave difficulty accounting for the leadership of the world's largest religious denomination, that seems like a significant problem for the ...

The Oxford English Dictionary’s first citation of “left” and “right” used in the political sense in English is in Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution in 1837, but the idea only ...

Politics. The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless The political landscape doesn’t fit on a simple map. Jesse Walker | From the June 2023 issue ...

Politicians today often describe their opponents as being on the far left or the far right in an effort to de-legitimize their politics. And the meanings of left and right can still change once again.

culture-war politics, left and right are moving — regressing, in fact — toward their most crudely authoritarian incarnations. Their declension recalls the totalitarian communist and fascist ...

"The Catholic world view, and I think this was espoused by Pope Francis, beautifully, like all of our great popes, was not left or right, it was up. Connecting from us to God, from God down to us.

The most defining characteristic of today’s (and history’s) political left is a socialist worldview and agenda. The defining ...

Lefty political parties across the world are now more unpopular than any time since the Cold War, a staggering analysis of recent elections shows. The Left suffered a record-low average of just 45 ...

"The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America" co-authors Verlan Lewis and Hyrum Lewis discuss their argument that the left-right political spectrum is a ...

In this political world, there are no longer opponents, only enemies to be reviled as extremist. Mr. Zizek lamented that on both the left and right when he said, “Everyone is calling people they ...