What do you mean by “there’s starting to be promising intellectual stuff coming from a right wing perspective again?” I think what one means by “right wing” and “promising intellectual stuff” needs to be clarified.
Because if it’s just obvious stuff like “transgender women shouldn’t be allowed to compete in sports with cis women” or “iq isn’t bullshit” then I don’t know neither of those things seem very heterodox. But if it’s stuff like “gender affirming care doesn’t improve outcomes and shouldn’t be available to children” but said in a respectable way, that seems more “heterodox” but it also seems much more insidious.
If you’re a rich person in tech with high-status, a “darling right wing heterodox publication” could be a nice thing to read and discuss with your friends (ala “leisure of the theory class”). But if you have much less social power, a “darling right wing heterodox publication” looks like it will be one large “isn’t it wonderful to be a part of the genetically fortunate?” circlejerk.
Abstract intellectual discussions about liberty and security seem very interesting, but the audience for that stuff is very small. A substantial portion of “heterodox right-wing publications” look more like Thiel’s stuff at Stanford than they do the federalist papers.
What do you mean by “there’s starting to be promising intellectual stuff coming from a right wing perspective again?” I think what one means by “right wing” and “promising intellectual stuff” needs to be clarified.
Because if it’s just obvious stuff like “transgender women shouldn’t be allowed to compete in sports with cis women” or “iq isn’t bullshit” then I don’t know neither of those things seem very heterodox. But if it’s stuff like “gender affirming care doesn’t improve outcomes and shouldn’t be available to children” but said in a respectable way, that seems more “heterodox” but it also seems much more insidious.
If you’re a rich person in tech with high-status, a “darling right wing heterodox publication” could be a nice thing to read and discuss with your friends (ala “leisure of the theory class”). But if you have much less social power, a “darling right wing heterodox publication” looks like it will be one large “isn’t it wonderful to be a part of the genetically fortunate?” circlejerk.
Abstract intellectual discussions about liberty and security seem very interesting, but the audience for that stuff is very small. A substantial portion of “heterodox right-wing publications” look more like Thiel’s stuff at Stanford than they do the federalist papers.