Henry Olsen

Henry Olsen

Henry Olsen

Henry Olsen is Editor of UnHerd.com's Flyover Country theme and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He is the author of 'The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism'.

Big tech is out of touch

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

The five elections to watch in 2019

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

Is blue-collar populism here to stay?

BY Henry Olsen / 7 mins

Is Trump making America great again?

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Is America bothered by Brexit?

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

America’s gridlock isn’t about Trump

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

What if Trump played nice with the Democrats?

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Why the Democrats need the Deplorables

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

The centre-Left will never defeat European populism if it fails to first understand it

BY Henry Olsen / 11 mins

Babe Ruth’s biography goes beyond baseball

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Is Sasse smart enough to unite America?

BY Henry Olsen / 8 mins

The man who would be President

BY Henry Olsen / 6 mins

What does America want?

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

America’s Great War amnesia

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

The midterms won’t end the mad melodrama of US politics

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

What America’s Republicans could learn from Canada

BY Henry Olsen / 6 mins

Germany’s identity crisis

BY Henry Olsen / 7 mins

The West is one crash from chaos

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Steve Hilton’s populist revolution

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

A culture war the Founding Fathers couldn’t foresee

BY Henry Olsen / 7 mins

Is Trump killing or curing American conservatism?

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

Could die-hard Republican Texas really turn Democrat?

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

Will the Catholics bring down Merkel?

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Aristotle’s answer to identity politics

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Is Trumponomics really helping blue-collar workers?

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Our new political order: Ins v Outs, not Left v Right

BY Henry Olsen / 12 mins

How the populist era could revive liberal democracy

BY Henry Olsen / 8 mins

Welcome to the populist decade

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

The battle for the soul of the Democratic party

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Could true neoliberalism save the West?

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Three state elections could seal Trump’s fate

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Why the Open vs Closed debate is so deplorable

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Why Trump’s impeachment rests on the midterms

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Three books to explain the Summer of Populism

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Are the midterms rigged for the Republicans?

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Trump doesn’t need the Special Relationship

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Work is worth more than a wage

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

All hail the autonomous automobile!

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Do you trust the mainstream media?

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

No, Canada is not having a ‘Trump moment’

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

Will Hispanic immigration make or break the land of the free?

BY Henry Olsen / 8 mins

American politics is broken – bring on the National Party

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

The flyover town that dodged decline

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

Trump won because he cared – lessons from Levittown

BY Henry Olsen / 6 mins

It’s time the West tackled China’s dangerous rise

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

A trade war with China isn’t the West’s only option

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Theresa May’s tin ear

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Slaying Dragons: Global Elite Condescension

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Why Hungary rewarded Orban’s rough democracy

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

How the Muslim Left is shaping the future of the western Left

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Automation to cause decades-long economic dislocation

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Former Romanian PM proposes new Macron-esque party

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Italy’s populists flex their muscles

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Before Canada opens the door to immigrants, has enough been done to get Canadians to move to job vacancies?

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Lessons from Italy’s election, part five: The non-populist parties must adapt or die

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Lessons from Italy’s election, part four: Immigration and low, low, low, low, low growth drove Italy’s populism

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Lessons from Italy’s election, part three: how Italy’s new election law killed the “ins” who drafted it

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Lessons from Italy’s election, part two: triumph of the “outs”

BY Henry Olsen / 2 mins

Lessons from Italy’s election, part one: Death of the “ins”

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Poor, white and working-class – the people who put Trump in the White House

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

Il nuovo, dolce vita per Italia?

BY Henry Olsen / 2 mins

Back in the US(A)SR?

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Open politics, closed minds?

BY Henry Olsen / 2 mins

Fear of economic AND social loss drove Germany’s AfD

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

China and automation ARE driving US worklessness

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

The centre-left will never defeat European populism if it fails to first understand it

BY Henry Olsen / 12 mins

What does Germany’s SPD fear most? AfD or a collapse in the polls?

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

It’s full steam ahead for China in the naval arms race

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Might moving be a cure for populism?

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

The Republicans’ attitude to wealth could cost them power

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Economic practices that explain why populism hasn’t taken off in Japan

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

A US trade war with China?

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Flyover country’s media friend: Steve Hilton

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

US life expectancy declining – because young men are killing themselves

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Media bias – New York Times gets Chile wrong

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Journalists would be so much more trusted if they followed Socrates’ dictum – that ‘the only thing I know is that I know nothing’

BY Henry Olsen / 2 mins

Goodbye Roy Moore. And goodbye Steve Bannon?

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Silicon Valley heavyweights are investing in America’s flyover country

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Cultural as much as economic factors drive Australia’s outsider party – ‘One Nation’

BY Henry Olsen / 7 mins

Evangelicals are still voting for Roy Moore: how populism beat decency

BY Henry Olsen / 7 mins

A lesson from New Zealand: neither left nor right can afford to ignore populism

BY Henry Olsen / 6 mins

Populism in Iceland: Why we should care what’s happened since the crash

BY Henry Olsen / 8 mins

There’s more to populism than economic hardship: Just look at the Czech Republic

BY Henry Olsen / 9 mins

The elites missed populism’s rise (but shouldn’t have done)

BY Henry Olsen / 8 mins

It’s time to put ‘Austria First’; says its new (and very young) leader

BY Henry Olsen / 2 mins

“New” Republican tax plan looks like all previous Republican tax plans…

BY Henry Olsen / 3 mins

Reactions to AfD breakthrough in Germany

BY Nigel Cameron / 5 mins

Forget Left v Right; it’s In v Outs

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min

Bannon’s unfinished mission to make the Republicans a worker-friendly party

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

To earn big money in US ‘news’ you should provide heat, not light

BY Henry Olsen / 5 mins

Welcome to flyover country. Which populisms are in retreat and which are likely to grow?

BY Henry Olsen / 4 mins

Next century outrage: The emphasis we place on marriage

BY Henry Olsen / 1 min


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