http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2007/10/07#right <P>Some people like to read about plagues, parasites, or psychopaths. Me, I read about the right wing. <P><em>See also</em>: <a href="counter-enlightenment.html">Counter-Enlightenment</a>; <a href="foundations.html">Political Foundations, Think-Tanks, Advocacy Groups and NGOs</a>; <a href="totalitarianism.html">Totalitarianism</a> <ul>See: <li>Dean Baker, <cite>The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer</cite> [<a href="http://www.conservativenannystate.com/">Full text free</a> online] <li>Robert Borosage, "The Mighty Wurlitzer," <cite>The American Prospect,</cite> 6 May 2002 [<a href="http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/8/borosage-r.html">Online</a>] <li>Edmund Burke, <cite>Reflections on the Revolution in France</cite> [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 <a href="conspiracy-theories.html">conspiracy</a> of <a href="finance.html">financiers</a>. <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/24/3/">Online</a>] <li>Susan George, <a href="http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/archive/summer97/george.html">"How to Win the War of Ideas: Lessons from the Gramscian Right"</a> <li>A. O. Hirschman, <cite>The Rhetoric of Reaction</cite> [And also his on-line "<a href="http://www.prospect.org/print/V4/14/hirschman-a.html">The Rhetoric of Reform</a>"] <li>Stephen Holmes, <cite>An Anatomy of Antiliberalism</cite> <li>Michael Lind <ul> <li><cite>Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America</cite> <li>"Right and Wrong: The Elegant Errors of Conservative Thinker James Burnham" [<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030118032158/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/012/focus/Right_and_wrongP.shtml">Online</a>. 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 <em>for</em> 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."] </ul> <li>David Neiwert, <a href="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/">Orcinus</a> [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.] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>James A. Aho, <cite>The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism</citE> <li>Bob Altemeyer <ul> <li><cite>The Authoritarian Specter</cite> <li><cite>The Authoritarians</cite> [<a href="http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/%7Ealtemey/">Full text</a> free online] </ul> <li>Nancy Bermeo, <cite>Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy</cite> <li>Kathleen Blee, <cite>Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9375001.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Mary C. Brennan, <cite>Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP</cite> <li>Philip H. Burch, <cite>Reagan, Bush, and Right-Wing Politics: Elites, Think Tanks, Power, and Policy</cite> <li>David Carroll, <cite>French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Antisemitism, and the Ideology of Culture</cite> [I <em>had</em> a copy of this very interesting book, but it was destroyed by the post office.] <li>Sara Diamond, <cite>Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right</cite> <LI>Martin Durham, <cite>The Christian Right, the Far Right and the Boundaries of American Conservativism</cite> <li>Jay M. Feinman, <cite>Un-Making Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law</cite> <li>Joseph V. Femia, <cite>Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought Since the French Revolution</cite> <li>Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross, <cite>Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design</cite> <li>Laura Catherine Frost, <cite>Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism</cite> <li>Susan Friend Harding, <cite>The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics</cite> <li>Jean Hardisty, <cite>Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers</cite> <li>Eric Heubeck, <a href="http://www.freecongress.org/centers/conservatism/traditionalist.htm">The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement</a> ["The truth of an idea is not the primary reason for its acceptance"] <li>Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith, <cite>Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right</cite> <li>Linda Kintz, <cite>Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America</cite> <li>Kevin M. Kruse, <cite>White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8043.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Lisa McGirr, <cite>Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right</cite> <li>David Neiwert <ul> <li><citE>In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest</cite> <li><cite>Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial and Hate Crime in America</cite> </ul> <li>Sheldon D. Pollack, <cite>Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda</cite> <li>Smith, <cite>Christian America: What Evangelicals Really Want</cite> <li>Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, <cite>No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda</citE> <li>Karen Stenner, <cite>The Authoritarian Dynamic</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/052153478X">blurb</a>] <li>Cass R. Sunstein, <cite>Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America</cite> </ul>