Home / Personalities / Adrian Wooldridge
A British journalist and essayist, Wooldridge is one of the leading defenders of meritocracy, arguing that selection by merit and ability drove the modern world and needs to be renewed in our time.
Political axes
Adrian Wooldridge leans further toward free market than 83% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Adrian Wooldridge stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, Adrian Wooldridge sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
German liberal school that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, fighting monopolies and ensuring competition and stability, serving as the basis of the social market economy.
Principle according to which positions and rewards should be distributed by talent, effort, and performance rather than origin or privilege, defending equal opportunity and selection by ability.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
The most distant ideology
Clerical FascismThird Position27%
Co-founder and chief executive of NVIDIA, Huang turned the graphics processor into the engine of artificial intelligence, defends global semiconductor supply chains and criticises export controls that fragment the tech market.
Also close, by dimension
Other similar profiles
Furthest from Adrian Wooldridge
Brazil's most populous and wealthiest state, São Paulo is the country's industrial and financial engine, marked by strong economic liberalism, a cosmopolitan culture, and decisive weight in national politics.
Also close, by dimension
Furthest from Adrian Wooldridge
Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
Also close, by dimension
Furthest from Adrian Wooldridge