conservatism

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/30/2021
  

  Conservatives Today Carry on Buckley's Legacy of Being Mad at Higher Ed – But Not His Motivation

  William F. Buckley warned in 1951 that Yale professors were too heterodox. Today's academic culture warriors are worried that faculty are inculcating an orthodoxy other than their own, argues Virginia Heffernan.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/26/2021
  

  Reagan's Go-To Magazine Has Gone Full MAGA – What it Means for Conservatism

  "The renaissance of the magazine provides the perfect capsule summary of the conservative movement’s long downward journey from pages to pixels."

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• 11/21/2021
  

  Perlstein's "Reaganland" Sheds New Light on a Familiar Story

  by Ron Steinman

  Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" captures details of the 1980 campaign that weren't obvious even to political journalists covering Reagan's ultimately successful mission to take the conservative movement to the White House. 

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• SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
  10/25/2021
  

  John Ganz and Lauren Stokes on the American Right's Hungary Hearts

  Historian Lauren Stokes helps to explain the American right's embrace of Viktor Orban and the right-wing regime in Hungary. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2021
  

  Right-Wing Trolling Didn't Start with Trump

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Owning the libs" through stunts and irony didn't start with Trump. Since World War II, getting under liberals' skin has mattered as much as policy and ideology, argues the historian of the conservative movement. 

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• 10/24/2021
  

  How the Republicans Became the Anti-Abortion Party, and What it Means for the GOP Today

  by Donne Levy

  Conservative evangelicals rode the abortion issue to a place of power in the Republican coalition. Will their success help or harm the party now that abortion rights are more imperiled than at any time since 1973? 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/18/2021
  

  Claremont's Bogus "Censorship" Charge Against American Political Science Association

  "As with almost any instance of so-called cancel culture, the question at hand is ultimately a specific substantive one: What did John Eastman do and was it wrong?"

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  10/14/2021
  

  Critical Race Fury: The School Board Wars Are Getting Nasty in Texas

  "The threat the loud and the angry pose isn’t necessarily that they win outright but that they tire others out—that they make public service too burdensome, too painful, too tedious."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/13/2021
  

  Gaming Elections is a Conservative Political Tradition

  by John S. Huntington

  "Conservatives have spent generations attempting to exploit arcane and anti-democratic electoral structures to carve a pathway for minoritarian rule."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/30/2021
  

  Misappropriating MLK in the Critical Race Theory Debate

  by Tyler D. Parry

  Selective readings of Martin Luther King's writing and speeches swap his radical critiques of capitalism, militarism and inequality for bland colorblindness. The fact is that "CRT" is deeply rooted in King's work, which was unpopular among white Americans in his own time. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  9/30/2021
  

  My Father Harry Jaffa and the Birth of Modern Conservatism

  by Philip Jaffa

  Political scientist Harry Jaffa succeeded in cajoling the disparate elements of the right into a coalition dedicated to the pared-down goals of defeating Soviet communism and domestic socialism; after claiming victory in those battles, the coaltion has faltered. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/27/2021
  

  Don't Forget that "School Choice" Originated in Massive Resistance to Desegregation

  by Nancy MacLean

  "Rather than giving families more school options, school choice became a tool intended to give most families far fewer in the end."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/28/2021
  

  The Golden Age of "Traditional Marriage" Never Was

  by Lauren Gutterman

  Despite conservative mythologizing, married Americans in the postwar era frequently sought and secured space to explore same-sex attractions and relationships. These histories show that regardless of who controls the Supreme Court, conservatives will be unable to force a narrow model of family life on the public. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  98/15/2021
  

  Edsall: Abortion Has Always Been Part of Broader Politics

  Thomas Edsall draws on the work of historians Katherine Stewart, Randall Balmer, Jefferson Cowie and Darren Dochuk, plus other scholars, to argue that the "right to life" movement grew from the movement of resistance to school integration and today is sustained by politics of masculinity. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  9/13/2021
  

  Will Homeschool Moms be Steve Bannon's Latest Political Shock Troops?

  Bannon's call to parents to withdraw their children from school to protest "Critical Race Theory" echoes the infamous 1974 Kanawha County, West Virginia Textbook Wars. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2021
  

  Texas Republicans Have Cleared the Path to End Roe v. Wade

  by Mary Ziegler

  A Texas appeals court decision may lead to a Supreme Court case that will test whether the current justices can accommodate a public respect for precedent with a political preference for outlawing abortion. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/20/2021
  

  The Contemporary US Right’s Roots in 1930s Union-Busting: Interview with Kathryn Olmsted

  The New Deal's support for labor rights pushed the large California agricultural interests, who previously embraced "big government" irrigation projects, to an aggressive anti-statist position based in keeping control over their workplaces and their profits. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/24/2021
  

  After Encouraging Conservatism for Decades, LDS Leaders Struggle to Get Mormons Vaccinated

  by Benjamin E. Park

  "This matrix through which this conservative, religious coalition views the world enables them to summarily and efficiently dismiss arguments that don’t match their beliefs."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/15/2021
  

  Conservative Publishers See Gold Rush in "CRT" Controversy

  "As the national conversation about racism has become a ferocious battle, conservative publishers see gold in titles catering to the backlash."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/10/2021
  

  How the Far Right Weaponized America’s Democratic Roots

  by Joe Lowndes

  By steering away from overt white nationalism, the far right is able to engage a politics of white innocence and portray themselves as heirs to America's revolutionary heritage.