A "best of 2023" playlist for your enjoyment (with only a little bit of political commentary in it)
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Bob Packwood and the Mirage of the Moderate Republican
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
A Guest Post on a Little Known Founding Father of the Christian Nationalist Tradition: Verne Kaub, Willis Carto, and the 1950s Protestant Conservative Underground
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
Recommended Reading: Leah Sottile's Recent Article about the Students in my History of the Far Right Class
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
Slow Knowledge in the Age of Hot Takes: Some Thoughts on Historians as Pundits
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