conservatism

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/19/2020
  

  How Phyllis Schlafly Derailed the Equal Rights Amendment

  Proponents hadn’t counted on a conservative grassroots movement led by activist and lawyer Phyllis Schlafly.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Shows how Backward the United States has Become

  by Max Boot

  We should not be especially surprised by our failure at pandemic-fighting, because if we are being honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that the United States has long been failing.

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• 4/19/19
  

  The Coming of American Fascism, 1920–1940

  by Chris Wright

  Michael Joseph Roberto's The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940 is particularly timely, as the old structures of American fascism have deepened in the last generation and colonized much of the world. 

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• SOURCE: S-USIH
  12-5-18
  

  Leo Ribuffo will best be remembered as a historian of American conservatism

  by Andrew Hartman

  A reminiscence by one of his former graduate students. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-8-18
  

  The dark side of American conservatism has taken over

  by Max Boot

  It would be nice to think that Donald Trump is an anomaly who came out of nowhere to take over an otherwise sane and sober movement. But it just isn’t so.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  9-9-18
  

  Liberal historians have been writing the history of conservatism. But have they been fair?

  by Geoffrey Kabaservice

  "A common flaw of the new political histories is to take the extreme right as representative of conservatism (or the Republican Party) as a whole. “

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  7-31-18
  

  Conservatism's Hidden History

  by Daniel Pipes

  Turns out conservatism as an intellectual idea goes back to the 15th century. 

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• SOURCE: Facebook
  6-4-18
  

  How business broke the post-war consensus and gave us Movement Conservatism

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Coming out of the Depression and World War II, there was not a lot of daylight in America between conservatives and liberals.

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• SOURCE: heartland.org
  3/9/18
  

  Hamilton College's Robert L. Paquette is leaving after being marginalized for his conservative views, he says

  A prizewinning history professor, he decided to leave after teaching there for 37 years, frustrated by what he deemed “marginalization” by other faculty and lack of support by the administration.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-25-18
  

  If this is what conservatism has become, count me out

  by Max Boot

  Principled conservativism continues to exist, primarily at small journals of opinion, but it is increasingly disconnected from the stuff that thrills the masses.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  2/15/18
  

  The Case for “Retreatism” in the Trump Era

  by Jeet Heer

  Centrist columnists David Brooks and Andrew Sullivan are in despair over today's politics. An essay from the Great Depression suggests a cure.

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• 2/18/18
  

  The “Conservative” Label is a Misnomer

  by Jeffrey P. Kimball

  “Reactionary” is more accurate.

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• 3/4/18
  

  Donald Trump Is the Johnny Rotten of Politics

  by Samuel Joeckel

  His punk conservatism is juvenile, angry, and unsophisticated. Like 70’s punk rock, he relishes lashing out at authority.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  1-5-18
  

  Teaching Conservatism in the Age of Trump

  Historians who teach U.S. conservatism say their jobs got a lot harder last year but that Trump's presidency also provides new opportunities for student engagement.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8-31-17
  

  The Summer of Love ended 50 years ago. It reshaped American conservatism.

  The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.

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• SOURCE: Moyers & Company
  8-16-17
  

  The End of a Political Era: Movement Conservatism Gets Real

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The ascendency of Donald Trump empowers movement conservatives to make their rhetoric real, but the reality is that voters don't want them to.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4-21-17
  

  Rick Perlstein’s still drawing brickbats for his confession in the NYT that historians (like him) have misinterpreted modern conservatism

  by Josh Mound

  Some historians insist economics really explains Trump’s victory.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11-9-16
  

  Forty years ago, George H. Nash created the field of conservative intellectual history. What can he tell us about the right today?

  There is truth in the conservative intellectuals’ claim that Trump hijacked conservatism. It is also true that despite its principled origins, conservatism birthed Trump.

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• SOURCE: New Criterion
  9-1-16
  

  Trumpism is a new phenomenon

  by George H. Nash

  Trumpist populism is defiantly challenging the fundamental tenets and perspectives of every component of the post–1945 conservative coalition.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6-26-16
  

  Where Conservative Ideas Come From

  by Timothy Shenk

  A generation ago, explaining the power of the American right seemed an essential task for anyone seeking to understand the headlines. Recent events suggest that scholars should adopt a more skeptical attitude toward the image presented by the self-appointed gatekeepers of True Conservatism.