This is one of those cases where the inadequacy of trying to describe our politics on a simple, single left-vs-right axis shines through so starkly. If we used

This is one of those cases where the inadequacy of trying to describe our politics on a simple, single left-vs-right axis shines through so starkly. If we used a two-axis system, where one axis is economic and the other social, The Economist would (mostly) fall in the socially-liberal, economically-conservative quadrant.