Whitman College political scientist Jack Jackson discusses his book ‘Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right’ and how authoritarianism seeped into the body politic.
Conservatism
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Antifa All Around
From civil rights protesters to elderly activists, Fox News and its viewers fear an imaginary invasion by the forces of anarchy.
Posted inPolitics
The Tea Party’s Last Stand
The legions that swept over the Republican Party in 2010 aren’t ascendant today—and they’ve scared a lot of other Republicans away.
Posted inPolitics
Steve Bannon Strikes Again
Another conversation with the architect of far-right economic nationalism
Posted inBooks
Praise by Faint Damnation
In which the liberals’ favorite conservative blames America’s crisis more on decadent culture than decadent capitalism
Posted inLaw and Justice
Conservatives Have a New Defense for Anti-Gay Discrimination
How Justice Kagan’s invocation of the plain language of the law has come under attack
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Meet the Oligarchs Funding Campaign to Kill Anti-Poverty Programs
Top funders behind a campaign against food stamps and Medicaid include some well-known rightwing political megadonors.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Democracy Died in North Carolina
Republicans sneaking through a budget bill while Democrats attended a 9/11 ceremony exemplifies how the Tar Heel State’s political institutions have been decimated by right-wing rule.
