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... of personal conscience impervious to the state. On another level, however, these moments reveal the mutability of social conservative opposition to gay rights. Calls for protecting religious freedom preserve a heterosexism derived from antecedent family values politics. The novelty of religious freedom...

...Mark Major Abstract Contrary to conventional wisdom, Donald Trump’s public loathing toward the press is not an outlier in conservative political development; rather, he is part of a understudied tradition of conservative animosity toward the press. I examine aggression toward the news media...

... by conservative political actors promoting a “competing rights” agenda and by LGBT activists focused on narrative change and marriage equality. Finding the limited strategy adopted by marriage equality activists cannot effectively withstand the legal challenge mounted by those claiming “competing rights,” we...

... surveillance. We then offer a comprehensive institutional history of Campus Reform – demonstrating that it originates with, and continues to operate as, a conservative political technology. We then explore the details of how this surveillance apparatus functions and conclude by examining the disciplining...

... traditions and deeply rooted identities as the enduring foundations of social order and political authority. However, conservatives today also refuse to set limits on personal ambitions, economic programs, government activities, and even leverage their fundamental values. In America, the “War on Terror...

...Richard Meagher Abstract The American Right’s speedy political recovery after the historic 2008 election was driven in part by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck. Yet conservative media are just one key component in the broad political networks built over the past few decades. Conservative...

... state of right-wing populism. The objective is not to determine whether the news media has a liberal bias, rather it is to understand the origins and development of this political and rhetorical project. It is argued that the liberal media critique was developed in the “conservative counter-sphere...

...Ritchie Savage Abstract This article presents an analysis of McCarthyite and Tea Party political discourse and explores the possibilities of utilizing populism as an analytic construct for making comparisons between the political and economic projects envisaged by these two conservative movements...

... not shared at the SCLDF, so this far more intense Sierra Club off-shoot moved aggressively toward mobilizing professional-technical approaches for its environmental activism from its inception. At times, in turn, the "politically conservative" conservationism of the Sierra Club's governing board...

... goverl11nents in the ]7ost-1910 Revolutionary era i1nplelnented a strategy to influence the political culture and actions of the elnigrant conl1nunity in the US. An ilnportant part of that strategy contained measures to influence and develop an ethnic Mexican unionization nlovell1ent along conservative lines...

... conservative themes. Consequently, Sandel ultimately undercuts the progressive aspects of his own vision, detracting from rather than contributing to the transideological aspirations of “democratic theory.” {/IINew Political Science, Volume 25, Number 3, September 2003 Carfax Publishing Taylor & Francis...

...Colin Hay Abstract With the recent landslide electoral triumph of Tony Blair’s New Labour in Britain, the question of the degree of convergence between Labour and the Conservatives in opposition takes on even greater strategic and political significance. It is generally undisputed that the terms...

... of American history and political theory. The second part uses the civic engagement of middle- and upper-class women in 19th-century America to construct a progressive alternative to conservative narratives. It shows that women did not stay home and focus on the family during the 19th century but instead...

...Peter Kolozi Abstract The neoconservatives have fallen out of favor among Washington policy-makers under President Obama as well as among conservatives themselves. However, neoconservatives’ impact on contemporary political discourse remains significant. This article is about the evolution...

... themes, and relate to the grassroots. Findings tend to define Limbaugh and Hannity as fiscal conservatives, and Ingraham and Savage as culture warriors. Overall, they point to Savage's particular status as an outlier in the CTR ecology, resulting from his cynical view of politics and suspicion of both...

... to carry through their proclaimed agenda for social and political reforms. This is mostly because the conservatives, who control most of the institutions of power like the army, the security forces, and the judiciary, have blocked the reforms. They have banned most of the pro-reform newspapers, jailed...

... a clear and durable leftward shift in public mood and the broader US political landscape. Yet, within months of the Democratic Party's electoral sweep, a putatively grass-roots conservative uprising challenged the Obama administration's legislative agenda. Although many journalists and pundits were...

... conservative in the 1970s, these activists became more radical, defining their politics as communist, and joining an organization that became the Communist Workers Party (CWP). In 1979, the Communist Workers Party became a target of the extreme right. The Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist organization dating back...

... of a political response is troubling, yet people are condemned as irrational, unpatriotic, or worse - conservative - if they do not maintain optimism about a better future. There is widespread repudiation of pessimism on the left, meanwhile there is little guarantee the future will deliver a brighter tomorrow...

..., and Christian conservatives alike: all are grounded in an identity thoroughly constituted by foundational wounding, which then provides a continuing impulse to fixate on perceived wrongs as the basis for political community. Rather than lamenting this, however, I defend ressentiment from the vantage point...