Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

Donald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for people who are, and it set off a radicalization and reconfiguration of the American conservative intellectual world. In Furious Minds, Laura Field, who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right—the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism. Their agenda is built to last, and it has dire long-term implications for liberal democracy.

This roundtable put Laura Field in conversation with the political theorist Elisabeth Anker, and historians Matthew Dallek and Timothy Shenk and explored the themes of her timely book.
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