Furious Minds: The Making of the Maga New Right
The most up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping America with astonishing speed today ... [Field] is particularly good on the less well known National Conservatives ... But the most interesting chapters are those that Field devotes to a sect of Leo Strauss admirers at the Claremont Institute in California ... Insightful.
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The author’s background perfectly positions her to deliver this lively, devastating taxonomy and critique of MAGA’s ideologues ... Nearly a decade in these academic circles makes Field a knowledgeable guide to a subject she takes seriously ... Reading Field, you can see something like the current wave of MAGA anti-Semitism coming from a long way off ... A question that Field touches on but never analyzes in depth is why liberal minds haven’t produced an equally potent answer.
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Fascinating and important ... Having written extensively about the New Right for outlets like The New Republic and The Bulwark, Field knows her subject well ... An excellent and intellectually honest guide.
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