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John Birch Society
April 10, 2023
Indigo Olivier
Today’s Paranoid Right Has Surpassed the John Birch Society
Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers” traces how conspiracy theories went from being a fringe pastime to the right’s defining feature.
April 12, 2022
Magazine
Timothy Shenk
The Struggle for the Soul of the GOP
Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?
November 23, 2021
Chris Lehmann
We All Live in the John Birch Society’s World Now
In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.
March 8, 2021
Rick Perlstein
,
Edward H. Miller
The John Birch Society Never Left
Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe
August 24, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
When the Republican Party Was Sane
President Eisenhower inherited a GOP that looked much like today’s—but he tamed the extremists and led as a moderate conservative.
August 11, 2020
Magazine
Patrick Iber
How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment
Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
January 8, 2008
James Kirchick
Angry White Man
September 24, 1962
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Peter Viereck
The New Conservatism
One of its founders asks what went wrong.
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