Heterodoxy deserves to be a thriving part of our intellectual culture. Here’s what that requires.

There are very many ways to parse the 2024 election, but one of its features is that it was the first election in which “heterodoxy” played a prominent role.

Actually, it could be argued that it was the heterodox election. Most of the figures associated with heterodoxy—Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, etc.—have fairly niche audiences that are unlikely to have reached low-information undecided voters in swing states, but that’s the not the case for Joe Rogan, the Emperor of Heterodoxy. And, in post-election analysis, it’s Harris’ decision to skip out on an interview with Rogan—in large part because her staffers and the Democratic Party in general seemed to have trouble understanding Rogan’s appeal or influence—that emerges as the single greatest miscue of her campaign.