Zealots at the Gate

The Minds Behind the New Right


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Underneath a bombastic and bumbling Donald Trump sits a world of radical right-wing intellectuals, shaping the ways we experience the MAGA movement today. How did the American far right emerge? How have we misread the far right—and what does that mean for our democracy? Join us as we talk with Laura Field, scholar in residence at American University and author of the new book Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, as she talks about the intellectuals and thinkers behind Trumpism today. What do they actually believe?

Links:

Laura Field's Book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right: https://www.amazon.com/Furious-Minds-Making-MAGA-Right/dp/0691255261/

Laura's review of Alexandre Lefebvre's Liberalism as a Way of Life: https://www.illiberalism.org/good-liberals-bad-cave-a-review-of-liberalism-as-a-way-of-life/

Laura's website: https://www.lkfield.com/

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