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Understanding Conservative Political Incorrectness

A brief, and incomplete, intellectual history of identity politics on the right

May 9, 2018 • by Claire Potter

How do we understand the contemporary conservative pride in political incorrectness? One of the core principles of contemporary conservatism today is that identity -- race, gender, sexuality -- should neither entitle anyone to rights, nor imprison them in an ideology. Identity, conservatives argue, is something that liberals use to create constituencies ...

Understanding Conservative Political Incorrectness

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For Conservatives, It’s Stormy Weather

Is the GOP dividing over Trump’s scandalous personal life?

April 25, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Why are so many Christian conservatives refusing to criticize Donald Trump's pay to play sex life? The news of a $130,000 settlement made to porn star Stephanie Clifford, a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, via alleged fixer Michael Cohen, is only the latest episode in which conservative religious leaders and the voters they ...

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How to Learn from Conservatives

Stop talking and listen

April 18, 2018 • by Claire Potter

In February, I was able to attend the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference, held annually in a conference center outside Washington, D.C. I live blogged two days of general sessions, interviewed people, heard numerous speakers, and was present at a Trump rally. I had the opportunity to talk to a ...

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Is Women’s Solidarity Possible?

To be a successful movement, feminism has had to ignore its failure with conservative women

March 7, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Tomorrow is International Women's Day. Don't do housework—let men do it (that is, should you own a man: we don't at my house, so we would have to rent or borrow one.) Don't do paid work. Don't shop—except at female and minority-owned small business (should you be able to locate ...

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Public Seminar is Back, LIVE from #CPAC2018

Friday, February 23 2018

February 23, 2018 • by Claire Potter

1:21 PM: It is really not the same thing to watch Donald Trump on television as it is to watch him in person. First of all, when you watch on TV, if you need to go to the bathroom, you can. But when you are live, and a speech goes on ...

Public Seminar is Back, LIVE from #CPAC2018

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Public Seminar is LIVE from #CPAC2018

Thursday, February 22 2018

February 22, 2018 • by Claire Potter

3:20 PM: Ted Cruz is absolutely running for President in 2020. Cruz ran onto the stage with that candidate look, waving and spreading his arms wide to make himself look bigger than he is. "I love CPAC!" he shouted, and for the first time since I entered the press pen, the conversation ...

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After the Parkland Massacre, What?

A conversation between left and right about gun control

February 21, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Joseph Castillo and I met in the fall of 1976 as first year students at Yale University. He was from the southwest, I was from the Northeast; he was a science major, and I was an English major. Joe became an engineer and entrepreneur and I became a history professor, ...

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The Campus Speech Wars

You have conservative students, so teach them

January 17, 2018 • by Claire Potter

In the coming weeks, I want to write more about the meaning of free speech, how we understand free speech differently depending on how and where we are positioned, and whether our difficulty in listening to--and understanding--each other is a crucial context for exercising our first amendment rights. But since ...

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The Myth of Black Confederates

And the rise of fake racial tolerance

January 14, 2018 • by Benjamin Alpers

One of the latest Confederate monument fights is currently brewing in South Carolina. State Representatives Bill Chumley and Mike Burns have proposed erecting a monument to black Confederate soldiers. The problem, of course, is that there were no black Confederate soldiers. The Confederate government refused to allow blacks to enlist ...

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Poland’s Growing Authoritarianism

On Facing the Implications of Recent Events

December 22, 2017 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

In order to restore real justice, unlike the EU-enforced one, there are no holds barred; and just because something is written in law doesn’t mean it’s just. It doesn’t even matter that some of these laws were created during the previous 2005-2007 PiS-led government or that they were signed by ...

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Syllabus: From Goldwater to Trump

A Political History of Tea Party America

November 1, 2017 • by Claire Potter

In order to think this through with students, I re-did the course, and the syllabus below that I am teaching this fall is what I came up with. ___________________________________________________ This course is a survey of United States political history and domestic policy that puts the evolution of the American presidency at its ...

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The Manafort Indictment

Twelve Counts — and I’m Still Counting

October 31, 2017 • by Claire Potter

For those of us who have been waiting almost a year for some good news, yesterday's indictment of Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates was a real lift. The bonus news that someone who had been flying under the radar -- George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to the ...