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 ...

It’s another iteration of the horseshoe theory, I suppose. The further out you go on the political fringes, left or right, the more they begin to bend and converge.

Even five years ago, psychedelics might have been accurately described as a horseshoe issue, picking up people on both extremes of the political spectrum. But today, the drugs are more like a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

His recent piece on the “horseshoe theory” of politics — where the extreme ends of the left and the right bend toward each other, similar to a horseshoe — is a case in point.

The horseshoe theory of politics is that if you go far enough left or right you wind up at almost the same place. If you're not sure of exactly what that means, you can look at the career of ...

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 ...