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).

    • Allero@lemmy.todayOP
      13·
      8 months ago

      Wow, thank you for such a detailed response!

      I’ll check out the sources you’ve given.

    • applepie@kbin.social
      9·
      8 months ago

      Thomas Sowell is an american pseudo intelectual…

      A lot of his analysis doesn’t hold any water if 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.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 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.