conservatism

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• 5/24/2020
  

  The Social Psychology of Popular Right-Wing Conservatism

  by Daniel Burnstein

  Right-wing conservative movements are driven by a psychological complex of threat and hostility to heterodox opinion that makes them difficult to stop once they've developed.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/21/2020
  

  How White Backlash Controls American Progress

  by Lawrence Glickman

  Individual backlashes are part of a common strain of reactionary politics that rejects challenges to social hierarchies. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/19/2020
  

  There’s Nothing Good About Phyllis Schlafly

  by Eileen Jones

  "Mrs. America", the new miniseries about Phyllis Schlafly, doesn’t want us to come away with a harsh view of its subject. But we should: Schlafly’s right-wing views were consistently monstrous, doing untold damage to the country.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  5/16/2020
  

  Is ‘Human Identity Politics’ the Solution to Polarization?

  A new book by Ezra Klein argues that American polarization results from the collision of early humanity's tribal tendencies with a realignment of group identities over the last 50 years. Does he ignore the special role of the conservative movement in driving polarization?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/14/2020
  

  ‘Mrs. America’ Reminds Us that More Women in Politics Won’t Necessarily Mean More Liberal Policies

  by Leandra Zarnow

  The recent streaming hit "Mrs. America" underestimates the influence of New York Representative Bella Abzug on future progressive politics and the complex impact of women's activity in the political arena.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  COVID-19 and the White Horse Prophecy: The Theology of Ammon Bundy

  by Betsy Gaines Quammen

  In a country with segments of people who deny science, act on revelation, see regular events as either conspiratorial or supernatural, COVID-19 offers a platform for misinformation and agitation.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/5/2020
  

  We’re Still Living in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

  Ewan Gibbs reviews Dominick Sandbrook's popular history of the Thatcher era

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/4/2020
  

  We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  The kind of freedom southern secessionists demanded in 1860--freedom to enslave and exploit--are echoed by the individualist idea of freedom proclaimed by anti-shutdown protesters today. Both ignore equally important communal definitions of freedom.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/4/2020
  

  Four Students Were Killed in Ohio. America Was Never the Same.

  by Richard M. Perloff

  Fifty years after May 4, public expression of unpopular views remains endemic to democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/4/2020
  

  Harsh Rhetoric Tears Us Apart — And Can Make Violence Seem Acceptable

  by Charles Holden, Zach Messitte and Jerald Podair

  The pugilistic speeches that caused Agnew’s political star to rise also eroded Americans’ bonds of empathy at a time when the nation desperately needed statesmanship.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/27/2020
  

  How Did We Get A President Who Advocates Injecting Disinfectant? ‘Mrs. America’ Offers An Answer.

  by Max Boot

  Max Boot examines "Mrs. America" and finds precedent for today's fake news politics. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/22/2020
  

  An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment

  by Elizabeth Kolbert

  Professors James Morton Turner and Andrew Isenberg's recent book identifies the Reagan Revolution as the moment the Republican Party rejected environmental regulation and made further protective legislation politically unthinkable for a generation.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  The Far Right Hates Liberals, Government and the Media — And Now, Quarantines

  by Timothy J. Lombardo

  Protests against social distancing measures are rooted in decades-old anger and mistrust.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  4/21/2020
  

  Phyllis Schlafly, ‘Mrs. America,’ Was a Secret Member of the John Birch Society

  by Ronald Radosh

  Schlafly denied to the end that she ever was a JBS member. After that, perhaps it was too late for her to admit the deception now fully exposed by the new documents shared by reseacher Ernie Lazar.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  4/20/2020
  

  Who are the Self-Styled Liberators? Looking More Deeply at those Protesting Coronavirus Shutdowns

  by Betsy Gaines Quammen

  The American militia movement — a network of armed people, some religiously motivated, some white supremacists, some neither, loosely organized to defend the Constitution, or at least their own version of it — have joined in protests of COVID closures.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/20/2020
  

  The Anti-Quarantine Protesters Aren’t Rosa Parks. They’re More Like Typhoid Mary.

  by Max Boot

  Trump adviser Stephen Moore even has the gall to call protesters “modern-day Rosa Parks” — as if the civil rights icon fought for the right to infect other people.

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• SOURCE: HistoryExtra
  4/16/2020
  

  The Woman who Opposed Equality with Men: Phyllis Schlafly and the Real History Behind "Mrs. America"

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Phyllis Schlafly ignited a national movement by arguing that women were fundamentally different from men.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/16/2020
  

  Protests Against US Stay-at-Home Orders Gain Support from Rightwing Figures

  Protests against stay-at-home coronavirus rules have gained support from rightwing politicians and media groups in recent days, setting up a battle with scientists and public health leaders who say restrictions are necessary.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/13/2020
  

  Conservative Groups Mobilize and Push White House to Try and Reopen Economy Despite Coronavirus Pandemic

  The outside effort from conservative groups is expected to be led by Stephen Moore, a conservative at the Heritage Foundation who is close with White House economic officials.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/12/2020
  

  The Second-Most-Dangerous Contagion in America: Conservative Irrationality

  by Max Boot

  Trump and the conservative media's rhetoric around coronavirus poses a threat to the general welfare of Americans.