Know Your Enemy4 Nov 2023

More Questions, More Answers [Teaser]

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In which we answer more of your excellent questions, including: the right-wing panic over children; how to leave grad school; Tillich, Niebuhr, and Dorothy Day; why 21st century Bob Dylan is the best Bob Dylan; how to teach a course on post-war conservatism; and more!

Sources cited:

Matthew Sitman, "Anti-Social Conservatives," Gawker, July 25, 2022.

— "Whither the Religious Left?" The New Republic, April 15, 2021.

Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child, 2018.

Kyle Riismandel, Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001, (2020)

Paul Renfro, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State, (2020)

Edward H. Miller, A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism, (2021)

John S Huntington, Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism, (2021)

Kim Phillips-Fein, "Conservatism: A State of the Field," Journal of American History, Dec 2011.

Allen Brinkley, "The Problem of American Conservatism," The American Historical Review, Apr 1994.

Rick Perlstein, "I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong," New York Times, Apr 11, 2017.

Peter Steinfels, The Neoconservatives: The Origins of a Movement, (1979)

Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream, (1986)

Stuart Hall, The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays, (2017)

Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, (2017)

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