The Right, Conservativism, Reaction

10 Apr 2009 17:40

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Some people like to read about plagues, parasites, or psychopaths. Me, I read about the right wing.

See also: Counter-Enlightenment; Political Foundations, Think-Tanks, Advocacy Groups and NGOs; Totalitarianism

See:
• Dean Baker, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer [Full text free online]
• Robert Borosage, "The Mighty Wurlitzer," The American Prospect, 6 May 2002 [Online]
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France [One of the founding documents of conservativism; a profoundly eloquent and equally profoundly sophistical work. Its modern admirers, for instance, never repeat the bits where Burke claims the revolution is the result of a conspiracy of financiers. Online]
• Susan George, "How to Win the War of Ideas: Lessons from the Gramscian Right", Dissent 44 (1997): summer, pp. 47--53 [online copy]
• Don Herzog, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders [This might be summarized as "The birth of conservatism out of the spirit of contempt."]
• A. O. Hirschman, The Rhetoric of Reaction [And also his on-line "The Rhetoric of Reform"]
• Stephen Holmes, An Anatomy of Antiliberalism
• Michael Lind
  • Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America
  • "Right and Wrong: The Elegant Errors of Conservative Thinker James Burnham" [Online. Wonderful quote: "The largely unintellectual conservatives who preceded them before the 1950s, and succeeded them in the 1990s, have been surly, demagogic and wrong about everything; in contrast, the mid-century `movement' conservatives around Buckley were wrong about everything in a sprightly and erudite way. They were never for racism, only against desegregation; they did not support apartheid, they merely vilified its victims and critics; they were not in favor of dire poverty, they just objected to any and all government programs that might ameliorate it."]
• David Neiwert, Orcinus [Does an excellent job of keeping an eye on the very scary fringes of the American right, and the almost equally scary way the supposedly-respectable right consorts with them.]

To read:
• James A. Aho, The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism
• Bob Altemeyer
  • The Authoritarian Specter
  • The Authoritarians [Full text free online]
• Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy
• Kathleen Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement [Blurb]
• Mary C. Brennan, Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP
• Philip H. Burch, Reagan, Bush, and Right-Wing Politics: Elites, Think Tanks, Power, and Policy
• David Carroll, French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Antisemitism, and the Ideology of Culture [I had a copy of this very interesting book, but it was destroyed by the post office.]
• Sara Diamond, Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
• Martin Durham, The Christian Right, the Far Right and the Boundaries of American Conservativism
• Jay M. Feinman, Un-Making Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law
• Joseph V. Femia, Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought Since the French Revolution
• Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
• Laura Catherine Frost, Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism
• Susan Friend Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics
• Jean Hardisty, Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers
• Eric Heubeck, The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement ["The truth of an idea is not the primary reason for its acceptance"]
• Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith, Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right
• Linda Kintz, Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America
• Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism [Blurb]
• Angela M. Lahr, Millenial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism
• Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
• Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
• Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise [blurb]
• David Neiwert
  • In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest
  • Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial and Hate Crime in America
• John T. Noonan, Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States [Free online]
• Sheldon D. Pollack, Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda
• Smith, Christian America: What Evangelicals Really Want
• Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda
• Karen Stenner, The Authoritarian Dynamic [blurb]
• Cass R. Sunstein, Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America