The Rise of a New Right
David Austin Walsh, a historian of American conservatism, talks to Jacobin about J. D. Vance, Project 2025, and the New Right’s political theory.
David Austin Walsh is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right.
David Austin Walsh, a historian of American conservatism, talks to Jacobin about J. D. Vance, Project 2025, and the New Right’s political theory.
Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.