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Laura K. Field is an associate with the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has written about the New Right for The New Republic, Politico, The Bulwark, and other publications, and holds a PhD in government from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Washington, DC.
""A Financial Times Best Book of the Year"" ""[An] excellent new book.""---Michelle Goldberg, New York Times ""In the ever-growing field of books aiming to explain the rise of the MAGA movement, Furious Minds, by a political theorist with longstanding experience in conservative academia, stands out for its emphasis on ideas. Field shows how the New Right, drawing on a loose network of academics and influencers, has coalesced around a vision of America that is socially reactionary, economically isolationist and deeply skeptical of pluralism as an inherent social good."" * New York Times * ""Furious Minds is the most up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping America with astonishing speed today.""---Mark Lilla, New York Review of Books ""A fascinating taxonomy of the wild world of far-right thinking.""---Zack Beauchamp, Vox’s The Gray Area ""A meticulous and unsettling revelation of a right-wing plan for a 'new old-fashioned world.'"" * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) * ""A revelatory, at times horrifying deconstruction of the New Right; it shows how we arrived at this moment, and it discusses the intentions of those who hope to push it further. Understanding their intellectual underpinnings is crucial to organizing an effective response. . . . We recommend her book for the essential knowledge it contains—and for its important advice.""---Michelle Anne Schingler, Foreword ""A meticulous, nuanced study of the patchwork of the US’s far right.""---Jeff Fleischer, Foreword (Starred review) ""A perceptive history and analysis, bolstered by the author’s proximity to the subject. . . . a valuable guide to understanding that ideology and countering it.""---Kenneth Silber, Splice Today ""[Laura K. Field's] background perfectly positions her to deliver this lively, devastating taxonomy and critique of MAGA’s ideologues. She was originally trained in Straussian scholarship—a reading of classical political thought that criticizes the modern turn away from the sources of moral authority toward liberalism and, in Strauss’s view, nihilism. His approach has had a deep influence on leading conservative American intellectuals of the past half century. . . . Nearly a decade in these academic circles makes Field a knowledgeable guide to a subject she takes seriously. She’s also a Canadian woman, a double identity that puts her at a skeptical distance from the more and more extreme world of the American right.""---George Packer, The Atlantic ""[Laura K. Fields is] a latter-day Athena soothing today’s Furies to rescue American democracy. . . . Readers will benefit from the best researched and most comprehensive account of the New Right that has appeared—or is likely to.""---William Galston, The UnPopulist
