[Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers?

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Allero@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I know Lemmy isn’t normally the best place to search for this, but are there any high-quality right-wing explainers, or modern books, or media outlets?

I myself am ultra-left (quite literally communist, to the dictionary sense of the word), but I’d like to quit the bubble that inevitably forms around and look at good arguments of the opposing side, if there are any.

Is there anything in there beyond temporarily embarrassed millionaires and fears that trans people will destroy humanity? Is there rational analysis, something closer to academic research, behind modern ideas of laissez-faire capitalism and/or political conservatism?

I’ve tried outlets like PragerU, but they are so basic they seem to target a very uncritical audience.

I’d like to see the world in the eyes of an enlightened right-winger, and see where they possibly fail (or if suddenly they have valid arguments).

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PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes! I’ve been on this journey!

Thomas Sowell bibliography is easily the best starting place. As a prominent conservative economist, his books actually make good arguments. It takes actual effort to deconstruct his arguments and identify where he’s wrong. He’s widely and highly respected in conservative communities and tackles a lot of the common cultural war issues.

Then there’s granddaddies Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek. Also economists, they were directly impacted by the Cold War, and make intellectual cases that capitalism is the only economic system that leads to real individual freedom. And they also try to prove why the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union undermines liberty. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom are staples.

Castigated by modern conservatives because they’re not serious about anything, sociology’s Emile Durkheim is a cornerstone of the discipline. I’ve never read it, but his book *Suicide *concerns individuals within community and the institutions of it. He talks about a type of suicide derived from moral disorder and lack of clarity, anomic suicide.

One book that I found incredibly insightful was Yuval Levin’s The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. This book is genuinely fair to both sides, and it shows the historical roots of conservatism and its relation to the French Revolution, when the right and the left as political stances first became a thing.

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- MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  OP, this guy has given you an honest answer that is actually good material.
  
  Seconding these recommendations.
  
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  - Retiring@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Love the name
    
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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wow, thank you for such a detailed response!
  
  I’ll check out the sources you’ve given.
  
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- applepie@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thomas Sowell is an american pseudo intelectual...
  
  A lot of his analysis doesn't hold any water is reviewed in context of the world.
  
  He is essentially doing the bidding for the regime which I guess what "conservatives" do but he is disingenius IMHO sort of Ben Shapiro type of lapdog telling working peasants sucks to suck, git gud.
  
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  - PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    While I don’t disagree exactly, the way he puts his arguments is far better than Shapiro. Reading or listening to Sowell is a lesson in uncovering sophisticated conservative arguments. It took me a while to understand how Sowell reasoned, so that’s why I include him and think he’s a great example of conservative thinkers.
    
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- Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  iirc Friedman changed his mind about the welfare state later in life
  
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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  And they also try to prove why the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union and every lesser species of it undermines liberty.
  
  Proving totalitarianism undermines liberty seems pretty trivial to me. An attempt to prove that communism must necessarily be totalitarian would be much more interesting.
  
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  - PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, that’s what they do and say.
    
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ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Frankly, anything explicitly marketed to American conservatives these days is mostly ragebait for stupid people and I doubt you’ll find any of it the least bit convincing. As other have mentioned, Thomas Sowell is a great place to start if you want something serious but modern and clearly written. Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose or Capitalism and Freedom are both widely recommended classics. If you managed to read Marx without dying of boredom you should also be able to get through Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action or Socialism.

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- NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Describes PragerU. I follow their YouTube and Instagram accounts and it’s almost exclusively bad faith arguments or rage bait.
  
  99% of the comments buy into it as well. I wonder if they’re quick to clean up (read:remove) dissenting voices or if it is actually an echo chamber.
  
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  - ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are you punishing yourself for something?
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Thomas Sowell is a great place to start
  
  My man was churning out ragebait before ragebait was cool.
  
  Who lost Iraq? Look to Obama
  
  Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose or Capitalism and Freedom are both widely recommended classics.
  
  Mr. Pencil Man, the guy who was convinced a command economy couldn’t churn out writing implements because they had too many parts.
  
  If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
  
  Is one of my favorite Friedmanisms. My guy simply could not conceive of a central authority doing anything right (unless that thing was standing up military juntas in formerly democratic Latin American and Middle Eastern states).
  
  If you managed to read Marx without dying of boredom you should also be able to get through Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action or Socialism.
  
  He’s got some bangers.
  
  Children and Rights
  
  Applying our theory to parents and children, this means that a parent does not have the right to aggress against his children, but also that the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children, since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights. The parent therefore may not murder or mutilate his child, and the law properly outlaws a parent from doing so. But the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die.
  
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  - barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I haven’t seen anything about children that insane since I saw that libertarian article pleading the case that we should be allowed to buy and sell children on the free market.
    
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  - ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Fair enough, don’t start with that article! Pinning his guy’s mistakes on the other guy is not a great look. I should have specified that his books on economics are where someone should look first, not his tabloid opinion columns. Friedman’s point about pencils was not that a command economy would be unable to produce them but rather that the free market produces them spontaneously, at low cost and in great quantity, of good quality and variety, with everyone along the way acting voluntarily and better off for having participated in the process. I don’t think an offhand comment about sand is really the best representative of his work. I think the quote from Children and Rights might actually belong to Murray Rothbard, but either way I disagree with whoever wrote it and think it’s a perfect example of someone following a generally good principle off a cliff.
    
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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks! Marx is sometimes tough indeed, but readable :D
  
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- PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Mises’ Socialism and the economic calculation problem threw me for a loop for a while. It really rocked my preference for socialism at the time. Then I realized modern corporations with modern computing power are doing exactly what Mises says a theoretical central planner can’t do.
  
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  - ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s funny, I see large corporations as being similar to a planned economy, but bringing the same problems. Corruption is widespread and gets worse the more layers of middle management there are. Economies of scale are what save them. Internal goods and services are mispriced and misallocated because political considerations replace the price mechanism. Man, I really hated that part of my life.
    
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MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If youre being honest, then youre going to need to look at historical material like Locke & Hobbes to get a foundation.

Modern conserativism… aggitation… can bw traced through Gingrich in the House in the early 90s, I cant think of the book off the top of my head but theres a pretty decent record of how he did manipulative things with unmanned cspan cameras at the time.

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- InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This. Perhaps even some “Wealth of Nations” and similar.
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Adam Smith is less right-wing than the cargo-cultists think.
    
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- PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For Gingrich, you can read his memo Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.
  
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- reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Gingrich’s “Contract With America” book was such word salad. Every other page contradicted the others.
  
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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you!
  
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db2@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

an enlightened right-winger

If they still exist they aren’t putting themselves in the (probably literal) crosshairs of the conservative/christianist goofballs.

It’s been actual decades since the right wing was anything approaching sane. The left is following suit lately too.

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- MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ahh yes, a classic “both sides” argument.
  
  Please, explain how the left has gone crazy with their ideology, because leftists don’t have much political power to actually mess anything up with, unlike conservatives.
  
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sailingbythelee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It partly depends on whether you want to understand pre-9/11 “reasonable” conservatism or the more recent Tea Party and Trump conservative populism.

Ayn Rand expresses the fairy tale version of romantic, rugged individualism, which is pretty important to understanding modern right-wing politics, especially in North America. I think the main idea conservatives take from her work, directly or indirectly, is that progress is driven by individual work and achievement, and that any kind of forced wealth re-distribution (through social programs, for example) is effectively theft, and therefore immoral.

The modern populist right-wing movement was originally driven and disseminated by right-wing talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh. So, listening to right-wing talk radio or podcasts is also a good window into the modern movement. It puts on full display the resentment felt by modern right-wingers.

If you would rather not experience right-wing media directly, but would rather read rational analysis about it, then one good choice is David Frumm. He is an old school Reagan/Bush conservative, and has lived through the transition of the Repubs to populism. He is very critical of Trumpism, like most people, but he comes from the perspective of a reasonable and well-informed conservative insider.

Fareed Zakaria has a new book called Age of Revolutions, which views modern conservative populism as a very significant political re-alignment with similarities to various revolutions of the past, both successful and unsuccessful. Fareed talks about the conditions that lead to populism. In that sense, he treats Trump’s popularity as a symptom and outcome of specific underlying societal problems.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you! I’d like to understand both, really.
  
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originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Others have weighed in on the academic, but a lot of the American conservative braintrust is (literally) in think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, John Birch Society, etc. These organizations vary from “pretty right wing” Heritage to “nearly literally fascist” John Birch Society, and they put out a LOT of papers and material they use to…I’ll generously say “inform” the public discourse.

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- folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There’s an episode of Behind the Bastards touching on the subject - “How Conservatism Won”.
  
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  - originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yep it’s a great one. Knowledge Fight talks about JBS all the time as well
    
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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks! Will check them out. Useful to get closer to sources everyday conseratives lean to
  
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  - djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Have you already read through Plan 2025? It’s kinda the latest huge report from the Heritage Foundation, and I’d say it does a pretty good job of outlining modern right-wing ideology. It can definitely be a hard read though, some of the things they want are really stomach churning to me.
    
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  - PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, you wanted that, too? Shoot, I’ll save you some trouble:
    
    These three below are the academic powerhouses of conservatism. The Heritage Foundation (and their news arm, The Daily Signal) are your standard rage-bait, but they still put out influential stuff)
    
    Heritage Foundation (Project 2025 folks)
    
    Cato Institute—Actually more Libertarian, and has praised Biden before, but generally sides with conservatives
    
    American Enterprise Institute
    
    Family Research Council—They hate abortion and everything to do with it. The Washington Stand is their news arm.
    
    Alliance Defense Fund—Current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, used to work for these ghouls as a lawyer.
    
    That’s all I got off the top of my head. I used to have RSS feeds of all of these organizations, but reading their headlines was infuriating. It was like a shot of hate every time they popped up. So, if I’m looking for arguments, I know where to go, otherwise, out of sight out of mind.
    
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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Here’s an audio copy of Murray Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State. Murray is basically the father of “right wing” libertarianism (insofar as right v left is individualism v collectivism, not “right=racism is good,”) he seems to fit the description you seek. Not saying you’ll agree or love him, but he isn’t some “lets kill the gays” nonsense.

Also try Milton Friedman, and Lysander Spooner. They’re more “anarchism” or “libertarianism” as well, from that same individualist, rather than collectivist, standpoint.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m not here to love these people, I’m here to hear them out :D Thanks!
  
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  - Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Please dont have sex with milton, ok?
    
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Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Foundations of geopolitics by Aleksander Dugan. This is the basis of modern European, conservative actions and the Russian playbook for the last 30 years.

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- MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America a.co/d/5pCJwnr
  
  This would probably be better for an american reader. Theyre not gonna get the cultural underpinnings of ‘Foundations’ without reading an analysis and I dont think this is what OP is looking for. Foundations is Russian international relations theory.
  
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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You mean Dugin? Heard of him a lot lately.
  
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  - GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yup that’s him. A Russian ultra nationalist who essentially wrote a game plan for Russia to dismantle the liberal world order of the west, and was/is highly popular in russian political and military leadership. Many of his suggestions are part of russian doctrine today (like the notion that Ukraine has no cultural identity or value and should be taken over). Quite eye opening.
    
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ReallyKinda@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is not a right wing resource, but if you’re interested in learning about the arguments and historical evolution of ideas that underpin economic liberalism/neoliberalism, I highly recommend Geoff Mann’s Disassembly required : a field guide to actually existing capitalism. It’s concise, relatively short, and treats the ‘other’ side like rational actors (which is important for understanding, I think).

Ofc this would only help understand people who are quite well informed.

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849351270

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you!
  
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Alimentar@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I find the Austrian School of Economics really interesting.

Particularly books written by American economist Murray Rothbard, who talks about free markets, government (particularly government intervention) and inflation.

There’s a very short book you can read called "What has Government Done to Our Money?”

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks!
  
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grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If I recall from the Alt-Right Playbook’s Origins of Conservatism video, some of the early founders of conservative thought you might want to read include:

Edmund Burke

Thomas Hobbes

Joseph DeMaistre
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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks!
  
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  - gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    All of that guys videos are extremely well sourced. You can find a lot of good links in the descriptions of his videos.
    
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aasatru@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is a solid philosophical foundation for a lot of right wing thought. If you want to engage further you can follow up with Michael Otsuka's critique in Self-Ownership and Equality: A Lockean Reconciliation.

Nozick provides an underpinning for what many think of as traditional conservative American values, without basing it in Christianity.

Then of course there's the Chicago school of economics (Friedman et al), which is just a somewhat naive and more it less completely discredited take on how the economy works. It's fundamental for understanding American politics the previous half century, but their ideas are not really worth interacting with unless you're particularly interested in economics. It's not like the idiot politicians who push it in front of them understand the theories either.

The theories is not far right; there's no salvaging the far right, and their ideological basis is mostly just bigotry. You could read Ayn Rand to try to understand which hole these idiots crawled from. Or better, don't waste your time.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I see! Actually, I think I should touch Ayn Rand at some point to get more popular sentiment - in modern times, her books, particularly Atlas Shrugged, seem to be the Bible of common liberals.
  
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  - aasatru@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, you're probably right it's worth reading if you want to understand the American right. I just don't think Atlas Shrugged is anywhere near as interesting as Anarchy, State and Utopia from a history of ideas perspective, but that might not be the relevant dimension. :)
    
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tjhart85@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don't know if you like podcasts, but Know Your Enemy is a take on the right from two leftists who used to be conservatives who approach it from an intellectual POV.

I linked to the political magazine that helps support them since it gives some rundowns of their topics that might give you some of the sources that can be read instead of listening to their podcast, if you'd prefer.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sounds like a great find! Thank you
  
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Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ayn Rand is where modern right wing ideology started. You really don’t need to read a whole book, she beats you over the head with the message repeatedly.

Fast forward to the Rush Limbaugh talk show and listen to some of his monologues.

Then jump back to Mein Kampf to see the future of the right wing.

It’s all bullshit, and it’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole of right wing talking points. Ask critical questions like what happens to the most vulnerable populations under that system and you realize quickly that it’s Sparta all over again and they will be actively killed because they believe in eugenics.

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- MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hard disagree with Rand, thats just a libertarian circle jerk.
  
  Better would be anything from Jefferson. If you really want to get into the weeds, the Anti-Federalists from the 1790’s opposing the Constitution in favor of keeping the original Articles of Confederation that governed the US right after independence.
  
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  - Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Jefferson sounds like a barely relevant choice from a very distant time, something that an average libertarianist will shove in people’s faces without telling it fails to describe shortcomings of capitalism highlighted by later thinkers.
    
    But as a starting point, I see how that may be useful. Thank you!
    
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- Successful_Try543@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you really consider reading Mein Kampf, don’t.
  
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- ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I thought your review of conservatism was very fair and balanced. I give it a perfect 5/7.
  
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dhork@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not sure of you’ll find the academic research you are looking for, at least out of the US, since the modern Conservative movement seems to have eschewed academia as filled with Liberals.

I haven’t read this book yet, but I’d recommend Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about JD Vance’s life in Appalachia, It came out in 2016, and I recall folks thinking that it was a good read, even if they didn’t agree with Vance’s politics, and partially explained Trump’s appeal to rural voters whose lifestyle bears no resemblance at all to Trump. And Vance parlayed it into a Senate seat, after all.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Interesting! Thank you
  
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WebWizard@feddit.ro ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mein Kampf

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Would unironically take a read someday, though it shouldn’t be considered mainline right-wing despite Trump debacle.
  
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  - naeap@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It's actually a really shit book
    
    I'm from Austria and in my early youth I wanted to work though the history of my family and country, especially because nobody wanted to really talk about it.
    
    'Mein Kampf' really really disappointed me. It reads like a whiny, misunderstood dude thinks he got cheated and looks for someone at fault - and obviously it would be best, if everything would follow his ideas, because then he would never feel rejected/disappointed anymore.
    
    Of course this is a more than subjective, and quite polemic, view on this book, but although I've always identified much more with anarchism, I really wanted to get what to intriguing about this book and its ideas.
    But it was just a series of whining autobiographic stories and some blaming for just someone to be at fault for his suffering.
    
    I've found the more common books during the period of the Nazi regiment much more interesting.
    There are quite some books about how girls should fulfill their role as a mother, when they are reaching adolescent.
    
    Pretty much the same for boys who get indoctrinated into being some kind of selfless knight - but always with the motivation of social admiration
    
    Every form of self fulfillment always needs to be for the good of the empire (read: in line with the Führer's will/ideology/order)
    
    I can completely understand how a young person would join a moment with such promises and I think it's very dangerous to just ban those books.
    Instead they should be part of the educational curriculum, so the actual problems and weakness (to put it lightly) of such systems can be discussed and understood early.
    
    Moving to simple solutions in times of crisis seems to be part of human nature. So we have to take care, that we don't do stupid things in challenging situations
    
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higgsboson@dubvee.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Going to Lemmy and asking this is like going to Truth.Social and asking about recources for helping trans teens.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  True, which is why I started my first paragraph with this :D
  
  I came to Lemmy since it’s the only such platform I trust to be inhabited by real benevolent people with useful recommendations. But the bias is obviously there.
  
  Still, I got a lot of useful reads.
  
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Skua@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I will have to preface this with the fact that I have not read any of his books, but former British politician Rory Stewart is one of the people that comes to my mind when reading your description. I don't think that he comes to the right policy positions, of course, but whenever I listen to him he does seem to at least have a degree of empathy for all people. He seems to at least generally see the problem even if I think that his solution wouldn't work. He has an effective way with words in interviews and his writing is generally very well reviewed too.

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Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The first name that came to mind was Thomas Sowell

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DonnieDarkmode@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not a right-wing source in and of itself, but Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind explores the history and philosophical underpinnings of conservative thought from Burke/Hobbes on through the 21st century, on a variety of different topics. It’s a serious engagement with the ideas, and attempt to understand them and their origins

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rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe read something from Jordan Peterson? He’s conservative, against gender politics or modern life. Sells ‘sime truths’ that look well reasoned if you’re not too intelligent. I think he wrote several books and has lots of YouTube videos available.

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theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Probably more right-wing than you’re looking for, but The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt. Insightful on how these people think, and much more readable than works by some Nazi philosophers I could mention. Also if you’re interested in a good deconstruction of far right views, I highly recommend Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer

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capital_sniff@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe check out Matt McManus’s work, he’s a professor at the University of Michigan.

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juicy@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So I’m going to interpret your request broadly and recommend a couple podcasts. They aren’t necessarily right-wing (honestly, probably center left to center right), but they’re probably outside of what you’d normally consume and may challenge or intrigue you.

The New Liberal Podcast New liberalism is a rebranding of neoliberalism. I’d start by listening to a couple mailbag episodes and his past best books of the year episodes.

Conversations with Tyler Tyler Cowen is a conservative economist at the University of Chicago, but you don’t actually hear his opinions that often on his podcast which consists of interviews with an eclectic variety of folks from a homeless man to a Calvinist theologian, from music producer Rick Rubin to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. He has a unique interviewing style that consists of a series of disjointed questions. He often poses challenging questions, but he gives them plenty of space to answer and doesn’t debate. I would suggest skipping interviews with people you know you’re going to hate (e.g., Peter Thiel), but instead look for interviews that pique your interest.
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Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A lot of the academics associated (formerly or currently) with Chicago Booth are highly respected as economists but highly conservative. As influential and famous they may be, their personal blogs and twitter account are yikes.

E.g. Harald Uhlig, Joch H Cochrane

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