Nicole Hemmer explains how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP
Nicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
Podcast: Michael Lee, “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
Podcast and summary: Heather Hendershot, “From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor”
The conservative William F. Buckley hoped to convert viewers, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view.
From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor
How did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
Podcast: Heather Hendershot, “Before Fox News: Right-Wing Broadcasting, Cold War America, and the Conservative Movement”
Heather Hendershot on how radio and TV extremists feigned a balanced presentation of their ideas later switched to an overtly right-wing line.
