bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Good primer on "Furious Minds" by @lkatfield.bsky.social

Watching @lkatfield.bsky.social lecture and ordered her book Furious Minds. youtu.be/tW7TOt3Yw2E It's important to understand the motivations of the MAGA movement, also for us Europeans.

Lawfare Lecture: The Making of the MAGA New Right with Dr. Laura Field, Lecture 1 is now publicly available. In her first class, @lkatfield.bsky.social discussed her new book, talked about what the rest of the series will cover, and took audience questions.

New piece! Laura K. Field provides an overview of her book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, touching on the key themes, figures, and her approach. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

Pleasantly surprised to see TAKING AMERICA BACK positively cited by Suzanne Schneider in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social!

A favorite thread from last year: Some of the best art from different editions of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

I'd genuinely rather keep Trump as POTUS than this guy. Vance is dangerous in a way that Trump isn't. He's disciplined in his assault on norms and institutions. He's racist by choice and calculation (note the fake-ass Freudian slip about Mogadishu). He actually has an ideology, one which utterly/

Vance comes down against “purity tests”—i.e., against criticizing the neo-Nazis. He’s happy to have them as part of his coalition.

This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)

Awesome!

Best Reads of 2025. I flagged Laura K. Field's Furious Minds.

“.. We are aware of at least 30 deaths at ICE detention centers this year, making 2025 the deadliest year for immigrants in ICE custody," Ramirez said in an online statement.

Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on the intellectual roots of MAGA, with a focus on the sheer opportunism of MAGA intellectuals who opportunistically glommed on to Trump: www.commonwealmagazine.org/big-ideas-no...

I’m excited to read (listen) to this new book by @lkatfield.bsky.social Dr. Field reads the audiobook - and the narration is fantastic - a great reading voice. I’m saving the book for a car trip, but I’m psyched to spend 13 hours listening to her reading to me. www.audible.com/pd/B0FXHGS4Z...

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

Finally some genuinely good news.

Great book @lkatfield.bsky.social

A great review from @mattpolprof.bsky.social, who knows this stuff very very well. Screenshots here of my favorite parts:

My review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's S Tier new book "Furious Minds" on MAGA intellectuals is out with @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/big-ideas-no...

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

I see Ben Shapiro was burning down barns over Candace Owens and her conspiracies. Did he admit any personal fault for all of this? Without him, we probably would not be having this discussion over Candace Owens and her mental state. He is the reason she's a thing.

Last week, we hosted a discussion on “Furious Minds” with author @lkatfield.bsky.social, @kvallier.bsky.social, and Thomas Merrill. They unpacked the intellectual factions of the new American right & explored what a “liberal renaissance” requires. Read it here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

Her new book is Furious Minds: The Making of the Maga New Right @lkatfield.bsky.social (Author) bookshop.org/p/books/furi...

Great program today with @lkatfield.bsky.social I think she went to University of #Texas whoot! @samseder.bsky.social @majorityreport.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiVO...

Jennifer Szalai reviews Furious Minds for the New York Times. What a thrill, I love this review so much. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...

We're delighted to see that five PUP titles have been selected as @financialtimes.com Best Books of the Year! 🌟 Browse these important books here: press.princeton.edu/books?search...

The U.S. has 8X Canada's population

@samanthamichaels.bsky.social spent a night huddled in the dark with an undocumented family hiding from ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I got around to starting this yesterday afternoon and have hardly been able to put it down

Can't recommend @lkatfield.bsky.social's book highly enough. One thing it has me thinking about a lot is how this has all been translated into mass political action Certainly this has something to do with podcasts, etc. But *so many* Americans, who are not reading scholarship, have bought in

‘Posner and Vermeule argued that “public opinion” would act as the ultimate constraint on a wayward president. That seemed a tad naïve.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.

This is a must-read article by @gregsargent.bsky.social, from start to finish. Greg starts by showing how ethnicity-based immigration laws excluded people like Miller’s Jewish ancestors, and how he nevertheless celebrates those restrictions (which came in 1924). newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Episode 2 of Ideology Unbound is live now! @lkatfield.bsky.social interviews Nicholas Buccola about his book One Man's Freedom, which explores the contrasting ideologies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Check it out here! www.illiberalism.org/ideology-unb... @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o... Very great read. Says it all.

My copy of Laura's new book, Furious Minds, just arrived at my local bookstore

I agree. I started it this week and can't put it down. Such an excellent chronicle of our current horrors.

If you haven't heard it, she had a great discussion with the Know Your Enemy podcast last month:

Icymi this weekend, I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about the Closing of the MAGA mind.

Very good @lkatfield.bsky.social column in the NYT on Richard Weaver and the deep roots of the anti-democratic and illiberal tendencies of the new right. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant

Oh absolutely he did. This is one of those deep personally charged schisms that only cliquish intellectuals can have. @lkatfield.bsky.social's book is really good on this whole Straussian crew (or crews). Jaffa was virulently homophobic and Bloom, well, wasn't.

Harry Jaffa, founding figure of West Coast Straussianism, in his 1988 review of Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind".

It’s worth pointing out that automatic weapons were banned in Australia years ago. Notice that each shot is just one at a time. Imagine how much worse this could have been.

Horrific, disgusting, inexcusable, antisemitic

Read @lkatfield.bsky.social “it would be a mistake to see his approach as simply the result of a vindictive president who swats away norms and embraces hardball politics... [Trump] has given cover to an extraordinary ideological radicalism in the Republican Party.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

Good piece by @lkatfield.bsky.social in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

Check out my opinion piece in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com today, about the closed and hardening mindset of the MAGA New Right. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...