This fall I'm leading Willamette's study abroad program in Strasbourg, France. The students and I are housed at a grand, historic chateau (pictured above) located in a 60 acre wooded park on the outskirts of the city. It's a stunningly beautiful location, and the
Throughout his 60 year career in politics, Senator Bob Packwood was the quintessential moderate Republican. Like the other leading lights in the Oregon Republican Party from the 1960s into the 1980s--Governor, then Senator Mark Hatfield (1958-1996), Governor Tom McCall (1966-1974), Governor Vic Atiyeh (1978-1986), Secretary of
by Alex McPhee-Browne (amm256@cam.ac.uk) The study of the post-WWII US Far Right is a vibrant scholarly field these days for obvious and unfortunate reasons. Though the topic itself can be quite a downer, one great benefit of working on this topic for me has been
This semester I taught a course on the History of the Far Right in the US. We were lucky to have one of the Pacific Northwest's sharpest contemporary chroniclers and interpreters of the far right, Leah Sottile, spend a day with us. The piece by Leah, "The
Last Tuesday afternoon my notifications exploded with hundreds of sudden new friend requests from strangers on Facebook, new followers on Bluesky, and new subscribers to my (now abandoned) Substack and this (currently ongoing) Ghost newsletter. At first I thought "oh shit, some MAGA influencer with a huge following just
Or, the crucial but sometimes fuzzy distinction between a) being a White American Christian, and b) being influenced by a violent, White Christian Supremacist variety of conspiratorial, antisemitic American Fascism known as "Christian Identity." I find myself worrying about the threat of democracy-corroding political violence much more
The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth
A window into Walter's world in its twilight years, and some thoughts about why people like me and that bookseller (and maybe you too?) find right wing kooks like Huss so morbidly compelling
What if they really were/are out to get you as they transform the country into an authoritarian hellscape?
What if those people who are different from you aren't part of some nefarious "Communist" conspiracy, but are just people in a free country who are [heaven forefend!] different from you?
On American Fascism's parasitic relationship to "The Party of Lincoln"
On the Oregon Republican response to the attempt on Donald Trump's life