> Based on that you'd expect The Economist to be center right but when people try to compare it with other news sources it is usually rated left-of-center [1] w

> Based on that you'd expect The Economist to be center right but when people try to compare it with other news sources it is usually rated left-of-center [1] which seems odd to me. The Economist is almost the archetype of economic center-rightism, but IIRC it tends not to fall even slightly on the right-wing side of social/cultural issues (trans rights excepted, which I’ve seen suggested is largely connected to one particular member of the editorial board), which is pretty unsurprising because right-wing social policy is a state-imposed inefficiency to the pure economic neoliberal. In societies where moderately right stances on social issues are common even on the economic left, when you try to construct a single social/economic left-right axis, I can see this making The Economist seem center-left on that composite axis.