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The Search for Community in the Early New Right and New Left

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Men now live in conditions that are less than human. -Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 1964 At a recent conference on the life and career of Barry Goldwater, an historian described the legacy of the Republican senator and one-time presidential candidate. The scholar drew from extensive research, which included several personal [...]

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Recruiting the New Right: Barry Goldwater’s Politics of Youth

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

In the summer of 1969, Representative William E. Brock of Tennessee reported to President Richard Nixon and to the House of Representatives the results of a study on student unrest in America. Campus-based anti-war demonstrations, free speech movements, and demonstrations for racial justice underlay the Republican’s investigation. Joined by twenty-two Republican colleagues, Brock had visited [...]

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