The Resentful Politics of Populism
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine J. Crammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. What is Populism? Jan-Werner Müller.…
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine J. Crammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. What is Populism? Jan-Werner Müller.…
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Charles Murray. New York: Crown Forum, 2013. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. Robert D. Putnam. New York:…
The End of White Christian America. Robert P. Jones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. R. R. Reno. Washington D.C.:…
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Thomas Frank. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004. Listen, Liberal; Or, Whatever Happened to the People?…
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. Samuel P. Huntington. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. The Big Sort. Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America…
Why did you choose the path of the independent scholar as opposed to a university professor? In 1975, when I was on the job market for my…
American conservative journalist, television commentator, and politician, Patrick Buchanan may be best remembered for his speech at the 1992 Republican Convention when he declared “[T]here is a…
A controversial novel when it was first published, Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) remains worth revisiting, even though the social and political conflicts of the 1960s…
Bellow’s first novel, Dangling Man (1944), is about a man named Joseph who does not know how to integrate himself in American life without losing the spiritual…
This volume looks at the political thought and milieu of one of the great, if not the greatest, American writers in the second half of the twentieth…
In my recently released co-edited volume, A Political Companion to Saul Bellow, the contributors explore the politics and political thought of one of the seminal fiction writers…
This book looks at the political thought of one of the giants of American literature: Philip Roth. Roth’s depiction of American life may initially appear provincial, American-Jewish…
What can Philip Roth tell us about politics today? What can the author of The Human Stain, American Pastoral, and The Plot Against America tell us about…
In the first half of the nineteenth-century, the question of history – its origins, its continuing burden, and the possibility of transcending it – preoccupied American thinkers,…
In a chapter in The Conservative Mind titled “Transitional Conservatism: New England Sketches,” Russell Kirk cited John Quincy Adams, Orestes Brownson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne as figures in…