Books had little to do with the populist uprising that swept Donald Trump into power in 2016 and 2024. But a cadre of right-wing writers and influencers have been constructing intellectual scaffolding around the MAGA phenomenon ever since. In\u00a0Furious Minds<\/em><\/a>, Laura K. Field explains and taxonomizes the effort to replace old-school Reagan-style conservatism with something more ruthless and muscular\u2014but still grounded in ideas.<\/p>\n

Field divides the New Right into three rough factions: Claremonters (such as Michael Anton, the man behind the infamous “Flight 93 Election”essay published in the\u00a0Claremont Review of Books<\/em>), postliberals (such as Patrick Deneen, author of\u00a0Why Liberalism Failed<\/em>, which made it onto former President Barack Obama’s reading list), and national conservatives (such as Yoram Hazony, an Israeli-American philosopher trying to make nationalism great again).<\/p>\n

Field has especially rich insights into the first camp, having studied political theory in the Straussian tradition. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Thomas Pangle, a student of both\u00a0Closing of the American Mind\u00a0<\/em>author Allan Bloom and Leo Strauss himself. This lineage makes her treatment of figures associated with the Claremont Institute, headquarters of “West Coast Straussianism,” particularly valuable.<\/p>\n

The New Right factions are united, Field writes, by “a staunch social traditionalism and rejection of liberal pluralism.” They want to fight and definitively win the culture war. Field’s center-left critiques are not always the ones a libertarian would make. But her work mapping this intellectual space provides an indispensable starting point for anyone who hopes to go beyond a superficial understanding of the anti-liberal American right.<\/p>\n

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