Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.

Review of Post-Liberalism by Matt Sleat (Polity, 2025) and Against Post-Liberalism: ‘Why Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left by Paul Kelly (Polity, 2026)

The Right is often unsure what time it wants to live in. And I’m not just talking about how online conservatives wax nostalgic about 1990s memorabilia as though a classic Pizza Hut is their Proustian madeleine, a symbol of everything woke took from them.

In his 2009 essay “Progress and Memory: Making Whole Our Historical Sense,” self-described postliberal Patrick Deneen described progressives as myopically oriented to the future, liberals to the pre

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