Home / Personalities / Glenn Greenwald
American investigative journalist and author based in Brazil, co-founder of The Intercept. Known for defending civil liberties, privacy against mass state surveillance, and exposing abuses of power across the political and judicial spectrum.
Political axes
Glenn Greenwald leans further toward liberty than 95% of the 525 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Power is where Glenn Greenwald stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Glenn Greenwald sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 260 ideologies
Current that pursues socialism without an authoritarian state, uniting collective ownership and self-management with broad individual freedom, organized from the bottom up by free communities and workers.
Philosophy that rejects the state and all coercive authority, defending the free organization of society through voluntary associations, cooperation, and self-management, with freedom and equality as central values.
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
The most distant ideology
Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight26%
A Russian anarchist theorist, Kropotkin developed anarcho-communism and the idea of mutual aid as a factor of evolution, defending a stateless society based on cooperation, science, and free association.
Also close, by dimension
Other similar profiles
Furthest from Glenn Greenwald
A small rural New England state, Vermont combines direct-democracy town meetings, the progressive politics of Bernie Sanders, cooperatives, dairy farming and environmentalism, with one of the least religious populations in the country and permissive gun laws.
Also close, by dimension
Furthest from Glenn Greenwald
During the Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
Also close, by dimension
Furthest from Glenn Greenwald