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Clarence Thomas.

The Conservative Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.
by Corey Robin, Joshua Cohen via Boston Review on September 23, 2019
Samuel Francis

The Outsider

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?
by Matthew Rose via First Things on September 16, 2019

Conservatives Say We've Abandoned Reason and Civility. The Old South Said That, Too

The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.
by Eve Fairbanks via Washington Post on August 29, 2019
Political cartoon of Grover Cleveland's trade policy.

Grover Cleveland and the Democrats Who Saved Conservatism

They stood against Tammany Hall, the centralized presidency, and profligate spending. Today's Right should give them another look.
by Daniel Bring via The American Conservative on August 28, 2019
Rush Limbaugh sits next to Newt Gingrich during NBC's "Meet the Press" taping on Sunday Nov. 12, 1995.

They Just Wanted to Entertain

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.
by Brian Rosenwald via The Atlantic on August 21, 2019
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Rethinking the Construction of Ronald Reagan's Legacy

Conservatives created a rosy image of Reagan to further their political project.
by Sarah Thomson via Made By History on August 12, 2019
Mugshot of Bernard L. Barker.
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Want to Know Why Some Hispanics Support Donald Trump? Ask Richard Nixon.

Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.
by Geraldo Cadava via Made By History on August 9, 2019
Barry Goldwater with his finger to his lips sushing the audience.
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How Never-Trump Republicans Went Extinct

Shared enemies and ideology matter more than Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on August 6, 2019

Flirting With Fascism

The National Conservatism Conference in Washington had a very 1930s vibe.
by David Austin Walsh via Jewish Currents on July 24, 2019
Image of Sergeant Pete Thibodeau during the War on Terror.

The Sum of All Beards

How did facial hair win American men’s hearts and minds? Thank the War on Terror.
by Adam Weinstein, Adrian Bonenberger via The New Republic on June 4, 2019

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on May 29, 2019

How Charitable Donations Remade Our Courts

The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on May 29, 2019

When Pat Buchanan Brought Johnny Cash to the Nixon White House

It didn't go exactly as planned. But for TAC's founder, this is where his populist antiwar movement may have begun.
by Jack Hunter via The American Conservative on May 24, 2019

How the Chicago School Changed the Meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’

Smith wasn’t warning about government intervention in the market; he was warning about government capture.
by Glory M. Liu via Washington Post on April 22, 2019
Image of the front cover of "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump."

Conservatives Before and After Earth Day

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?
by James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg via Harvard University Press Blog on April 22, 2019
People stand outside the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham.

The American Church's Complicity in Racism

On the many moments when white Christians could have interceded on behalf of racial justice, but did not.
by Jemar Tisby, Eric C. Miller via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on April 2, 2019

168 Days: Recalling an Old-Fashioned Court Packing Drama

After months of political maneuvering, intrigue, backroom bargaining, and furious oratory, the fate of FDR's plan was clear.
by Robert W. Merry via The American Conservative on March 27, 2019

AOC and the American Founding

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.
by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on January 30, 2019
A modern adaption of Howard Chandler Christy’s 1940 painting, “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” with contemporary players on both sides of the judicial contest.

How The Federalist Society is Helping Conservatives Win The Judicial War

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.
by David Montgomery via Washington Post Magazine on January 2, 2019
George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush in church.
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How George H.W. Bush Enabled the Rise of the Religious Right

Religious conservatives used the Bush presidency to launch their takeover of the GOP.
by Neil J. Young via Made By History on December 5, 2018
1850s engraving of the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on December 3, 2018

Goodbye, Cold War

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on November 30, 2018
Black and white image of Alice Paul, broadcasting from her desk at the Capitol, 1923.

Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on November 26, 2018

An Obituary for Old Orange County, Dead at Age 129

Once reliably red, the official cause of O.C.’s passing is a case of the blue flu.
by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on November 7, 2018

Populist Persuasions

The promise and perils of left populism.
by Joe Lowndes via The Baffler on October 31, 2018

How Republicans Became Anti-Choice

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.
by Sue Halpern via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2018
Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

How Rizzo's blue-collar populism helped him survive his tumultuous first term as mayor.
by Timothy Lombardo via Tropics of Meta on October 16, 2018

Evangelicals Bring the Votes, Catholics Bring the Brains

To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the U.S. Supreme Court, we must look to the history of American Catholic education.
by Gene Zubovich via Aeon on October 9, 2018
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Conservatives’ Self-Delusion on Race

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.
by Joshua Tait via Made By History on October 5, 2018
The Alamo.
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Once Again, Texas’s Board of Education Exposed How Poorly We Teach History

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.
by Jonna Perrillo via Made By History on September 21, 2018
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