Laura K Field

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

@lkatfield.bsky.social on the New Right: "They are far more radical than most American voters. This is not what people voted for with Donald Trump…Nobody really believed the Project 2025 stuff…JD Vance is in a very difficult position."

Thank you Holly

What to read this week, from the Maga right to an Orthodo... Your essential guide from The Observer’s books desk

Furious Minds was selected as the book of the week by @theobserveruk.bsky.social in the UK.

Kenan Malik reviews and calls it “an outstanding intellectual history of the present.”

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Exciting to see Furious Minds reviewed in @litreview.bsky.social, by Michael Burleigh. @princetonupress.bsky.social

literaryreview.co.uk/19658-2

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Here’s Joel Webbon:

“…half of my household vote was stolen from me. And my loving, Godly, wonderful wife, what we’re practicing is not hypocrisy. What we’re practicing is restitution. My loving wife said, ‘Wicked people stole half of your vote, husband, and I would like to give it back to you.’”

This is an interpretation I can get behind 😂😜

One of the many things I absolutely love about 'Furious Minds' by @lkatfield.bsky.social is that it utterly demolishes the veneer of untouchability around the Ivies. For all their prestige, so many Ivy League faculty and people with Ivy League PhDs are insipid reactionary dipshits.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Thank you!!

A copy of "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" by Laura K. Field.

Just finished @lkatfield.bsky.social's book "Furious Minds." It's an excellent guide to the thinkers that animate the American New Right. She helps readers, especially those who share none of these thinkers' beliefs, understand their antidemocratic, antiliberal goals.

Hey history friends!

We'll be talking about PragerU this morning on NPR's On Point at 10 eastern.

Yes, the folks who brought you "slavery was not that bad;" the "woke" teacher test, and Frederick Douglass explaining why the Founders were...the real abolitionists.
www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

Episode 5 of Ideology Unbound is now live. @lkatfield.bsky.social sits down with Marlene Laruelle to talk about #Russia and #illiberalism.
This one is also available as a video on YouTube.

@ieres-gwu.bsky.social

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

For Good Conference — The Pulaski Institution The For Good Conference is a weekend dedicated to the intersection of liberalism and what it means to live a good life. Speakers and panelists will discuss questions around public ethics, religion, c...

Come to Charlottesville this May for a weekend about liberalism, ethics, civic virtue, and public religion.

Feat @jamellebouie.net, @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, @sarahposner.bsky.social, @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com, @shortle.bsky.social and more!

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The Intellectual Edgelords of the GOP The mainstreaming of transgressive ideas is the culmination of a yearslong conservative project.

@lkatfield.bsky.social
“The risk is in presuming that anything subversive or sensational is also true & meaningful, & that anything conventional is a lie that must be smashed down
That is a brutal way to inhabit the world—&, I hope, a losing one”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Scholar @lkatfield.bsky.social speaks with @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.

inthesetimes.com/article/laur...

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

Watch this.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

Episode 88: The Intellectuals Behind the MAGA New Right In this new episode, SIS visiting scholar in residence Laura Field joins Big World to discuss the intellectual backbone of the New Right.

In this new episode of Big World, SIS visiting scholar @lkatfield.bsky.social joins us to discuss the intellectual backbone of the New Right and her recent book, “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.” Listen now! https://bit.ly/3Zwa20b

AG Kris Mayes on Noem's presser in Phoenix today: "Arizona's elections are safe and secure. The election deniers now staffing the Trump administration have spent the past six years lying to the American people in a deliberate effort to destroy trust in our election system."

“Culture warriorism-which we might define as an… emphasis on rhetoric & media performance over policy… &… political negotiation-plays a major role on the New Right bc at bottom this is a movement driven by reactionary social values & principles, not specific policy concerns.”
@lkatfield.bsky.social

Props to Dr. Field, for courage and clarity in pulling on the various intellectualized threads in the maga knot of moral collapse.

004: DHS, Nazi Propaganda & the MAGA New Right: Inside Trump’s Intellectual Takeover Listen to Reign of Error with Sarah Posner on RedCircle

Listen to the expert, @lkatfield.bsky.social, on the Claremont Institute and the other organizations and leaders of this extremist movement that, under Trump, is taking over official Washington:

redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

The news cycle keeps showing how @lkatfield.bsky.social is right that these MAGA New Right institutions are now the tributaries to work in the federal bureaucracy. We taped on Tuesday, on Wednesday NYT broke the story about the new social media staffer added to DHS (see link upthread). Today: