Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser]
Know Your Enemy
English - February 11, 2024 16:29 - 4 minutes - 3.68 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture conservatism conservative movement right wing national review william f buckley socialists ronald reagan reactionaries Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Matt and Sam return to some historiographic questions from our episode with Kim Phillips-Fein — especially how to think the relationship between "right" and "far right" — and then discuss the troubling return of scientific racism to mainstream conservative thought.
Further Reading:
James Alison, "Facing Down the Wolf," Commonweal, June 10, 2020.
Matthew Sitman, "Time in the Eternal City," Commonweal, Dec 24, 2024.
Samuel L. Popkin, Crackup: The Republican Implosion and the Future of Presidential Politics, Oxford UP, May 2021.
Joseph E. Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism, Yale UP, June 2009
John S. Huntington, Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism, Penn Press, Oct 2021.