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Conservatives’ Self-Delusion on Race
How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.
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Joshua Tait
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Made by History
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October 5, 2018
An Implausible Mr. Buckley
A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.
by
Rick Perlstein
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The American Prospect
on
April 17, 2024
The Evolution of Conservative Journalism
From Bill Buckley to our 24/7 media circus.
by
Johnny Miller
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National Review
on
October 12, 2023
The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley
Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.
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Bécquer Seguín
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Dissent
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September 28, 2023
How the John Birch Society Won the Long Game
The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.
by
Nathan J. Robinson
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The Nation
on
June 8, 2023
The Fringe Group That Broke the GOP’s Brain — And Helped It Win Elections
The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.
by
Matthew Dallek
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Ian Ward
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Vox
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March 19, 2023
Good Old Pat
Reflecting on Pat Buchanan's legacy.
by
John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
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January 25, 2023
The Birchers & the Trumpers
A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.
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James Mann
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New York Review of Books
on
June 2, 2022
The Struggle for the Soul of the GOP
Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?
by
Timothy Shenk
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The New Republic
on
April 12, 2022
The Conservative and the Murderer
Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?
by
Sam Adler-Bell
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The New Republic
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March 7, 2022
The John Birch Society Never Left
Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe.
by
Rick Perlstein
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Edward H. Miller
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The New Republic
on
March 8, 2021
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McConnell’s Task: Purging the Crackpots and Bigots
The impeachment exposed the need for Republican leaders to banish the extremists and bigots from their movement.
by
Kevin M. Schultz
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Made by History
on
February 15, 2021
The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy
True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.
by
Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
on
January 7, 2021
The Year the Clock Broke
How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
by
John Ganz
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The Baffler
on
November 5, 2018
The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal
Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.
by
Heather Cox Richardson
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BillMoyers.com
on
December 7, 2017
American Dreamers
Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.
by
William Hogeland
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Boston Review
on
May 1, 2008
The Autocratic Allure
Why the far right embraces foreign tyrants.
by
Beverly Gage
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Foreign Affairs
on
August 20, 2024
The Origins of Conservatism’s ‘Gnostic’ Meme
You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.
by
Joshua Tait
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The Bulwark
on
April 12, 2024
How the FBI Aided the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US
It was J. Edgar Hoover who did more than any fire-breathing churchman to turn fearful white suburbanites into the crusaders of a renewed conservative backlash.
by
James Robins
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New Humanist
on
October 5, 2023
Possibilities for Propaganda
The founding and funding of conservative media on college campuses in the 1960s.
by
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 30, 2023
Myths of Doom
Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?
by
John Ganz
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The Nation
on
November 29, 2022
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.
by
David Corn
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Mother Jones
on
September 9, 2022
The Myth That Roe Broke America
The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
by
Adam Serwer
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The Atlantic
on
May 18, 2022
Rise of the Far-Right Ultras
A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Nation
on
January 11, 2022
We All Live in the John Birch Society’s World Now
In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.
by
Chris Lehmann
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The New Republic
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November 23, 2021
Long Before QAnon, Ronald Reagan and The GOP Purged John Birch Extremists From The Party
Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.
by
Erick Trickey
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Retropolis
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January 15, 2021
McCarthyism Was Never Defeated. Trumpism Won’t Be Either.
Censure brought down a crusading anti-communist senator but fired up his followers.
by
Beverly Gage
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Washington Post
on
December 4, 2020
How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment
Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
by
Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
on
August 11, 2020
Evangelicals Bring the Votes, Catholics Bring the Brains
To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the U.S. Supreme Court, we must look to the history of American Catholic education.
by
Gene Zubovich
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Aeon
on
October 9, 2018
When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again
If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.
by
Sam Tanenhaus
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Esquire
on
April 5, 2017
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