The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field)

Laura K. Field's Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right , published earlier this month, is a book we simply had to discuss. Listeners to this podcast will recognize its cast of characters—conservative intellectuals like Patrick Deneen, Michael Anton, John Eastman, Adrian Vermeule, and Harry Jaffa, among others—whose ideas and influence Field carefully categorizes and evaluates, bringing order to an unruly decade of intellectual history. Topics include: Leo Strauss and the problem of great teachers; the use and abuse of grand narratives by the right; how the Claremonters went all in on Trump; the permission given by postliberals to some of the nastiest impulses on the right; and more! Sources: Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right (2025) — " Revisiting Why Liberalism Failed : A Five-Part Series ," Niskanen Center, Dec 21, 2020 Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (2018) — Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (2023) Matthew Sitman, " Liberalism and the Catholic Left ," Commonweal , Dec 3, 2018 Publius Decius Mus/Michael Anton, " The Flight 93 Election ," Claremont Review of Books , Sept 5, 2016 Adrian Vermeule, " Integration from Within ," Am…