Edward H. Miller

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.

In the heat of the Cold War, Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade became a media sensation.

A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.

The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.

In his history of the John Birch Society, Matthew Dallek says Republicans allowed the extreme fringe to “eventually cannibalize the entire party.”