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America’s Online Right is a disparate group, which is much written-about and much misunderstood. But a new essay by Sam Kriss for Damage magazine makes some interesting points about the taxonomy of influential internet conservatives. Kriss argues that “all the intellectual energy is now on the Right,” though he adds that these Right-wingers “are only united by what they claim to be opposing and superseding”.

Looking at writers such as Curtis Yarvin and social-media personalities such as Bronze Age Pervert, the piece includes a semi-ironic visual accompaniment: a political compass mapping out the Online Right’s obsessions with race and sex. Kriss also emphasises the split between “Christians” and “Nietzcheans”, which is dictated less by religious identity and more by what one thinks about equality and individual rights.

The piece concludes that internet Right-wingers’ politics “are all for show” and are rooted in “pure oppositionalism”. What’s more, “the erotic obsession with virile masculinity is just an echo of girlboss feminism”, apparently. The Right afflicted by similar problems to the Left? Surely not…