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Brian Thorn

Brian Thorn teaches North American history and English at Nipissing University in Canada. He is interested in various modes of North American and European conservative thought, localism, populism, the "Old Right," and gender politics. He is the author of From Left to Right: Maternalism and Women's Political Activism in Postwar Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2017).

The Right, the Left and Localism and Traditionalism: An Overview of Recent Scholarship on the North American Right

June 7, 2021
Brian Thorn

Books Discussed in this Essay: Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, National Populism: The…

“Traveling Bags for Their Trip To Russia”: Canadian Right-Women and International Relations during the Cold War: Expressing Dissident Views

February 8, 2020
Brian Thorn

Introduction Cold War anti-communism played a significant role in Canadian provincial, as well as federal, politics and women members of the provincial branches of the Social Credit…

“Ladies, Let Us Hold High the Banner of Social Credit!” Reaction, Tradition, and Localism in Right-Wing Canadian Women’s Ideology

June 23, 2019
Brian Thorn

The 31st Annual Convention of the Alberta Social Credit Women’s Auxiliaries (SCWA) was held at the Chateau Lacombe in Edmonton, Northern Alberta, Canada, on December 3, 1968.…

Brian Thorn

Brian Thorn

The Right, the Left and Localism and Traditionalism: An Overview of Recent Scholarship on the North American Right

“Traveling Bags for Their Trip To Russia”: Canadian Right-Women and International Relations during the Cold War: Expressing Dissident Views

“Ladies, Let Us Hold High the Banner of Social Credit!” Reaction, Tradition, and Localism in Right-Wing Canadian Women’s Ideology

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