Category Archive: New Right

Where Were You in ‘73?

In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today’s political reaction.

Reagan’s 1966 Gubernatorial Campaign Turns 50: California, Conservatism, and Donald Trump

On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, in an attempt to right a flagging Barry Goldwater campaign, stepped up […]

“Even Richard Nixon has got soul”: Evan Thomas’s take on the late President in “Being Nixon”

In 1976, Pat Nixon, wife of the former President, suffered a stroke. Television cameras caught a distraught Richard […]

Nixonian Trump?: The Similarities and Differences between The Donald and Tricky Dick

In a satirical take on the 1968 election, Jose Perez and Robert F. Patton produced The Nixon-Agnew Coloring […]

Feminism, Evangelicalism, and Social Welfare in Ronald Reagan’s Military: Part II of Jennifer Mittelstadt and The Rise of the Military Welfare State

[Editor’s note: This is part II of ToM’s three part series on the AVF via Jennifer Mittelstadt’s recent […]

The Reagan Revolution Part II: The Thinnest of Hip Hop Primers on Rap’s Rejection of Ronald Reagan, 1980 – 2013

  Over the last twenty or thirty years, historians have tried to situate the United States in a […]

The Reagan Revolution Part I: Popular Music, Ronald Reagan, and Protest: Punk, Hardcore, and Post Punk, a Primer, 1980-2010

Editor’s note: This week we kick off a series of posts on punk in the 1980s and 1990s […]