This is the season for columnists to offer some new idea that encapsulates the year that was. I got nothing. But 2023 was the year I finally abandoned my opposition to an old idea—the horseshoe ...

This is the season for columnists to offer some new idea that encapsulates the year that was. I got nothing. But 2023 was the year I finally abandoned my opposition to an old idea—the horseshoe ...

2023 was the year I started believing in the horseshoe theory of politics. Members of Parliament applaud a retiring member during a session of the French National Assembly in Paris on Dec. 20, 2023.

While I’ve always thought totalitarian regimes — Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany — have more similarities than differences, I didn’t believe that the horseshoe theory mapped well in ...

THE HORSESHOE theory of politics—the idea that the far-left and far-right resemble each other—has performed admirably well in the Trump era. It gained fresh vindication in a recent squabble ...

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Jonah Goldberg: 2023 was the year I started believing in the horseshoe theory of politics While the American left and right have always had plenty of disagreements, they were usually hashed out ...

But 2023 was the year I finally abandoned my opposition to an old idea — the horseshoe theory of political ideologies. The term is often attributed to French author Jean-Pierre Faye's 1996 book ...

The findings are in line with the horseshoe theory of politics, a political concept that suggests the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite ends of a straight ideological ...

I finally abandoned my opposition this year to an old idea -- the horseshoe theory of political ideologies. The term is often attributed to French author Jean-Pierre Faye's 1996 book "Le Siecle ...