Mark
Lilla,
The New
York Review of Books
The most
up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping
America with astonishing speed today ... [Field] is particularly good on the
less well known National Conservatives ... But the most interesting chapters
are those that Field devotes to a sect of Leo Strauss admirers at the Claremont
Institute in California ... Insightful.
Richard M. Reinsch II,
The Wall Street Journal
The National Conservatives, or natcons, emerged
in 2019. Ms. Field struggles to provide a clear definition of their mission
.... The idea that Jaffa’s famous pugnacity arose from his Straussian ideas
rather than his personality strikes me as tendentious. More notable, though, is
that Ms. Field, in a work about political theory and practice, hardly bothers
to counter Jaffa or other influential thinkers with her own liberal version of
a polity that upholds individual dignity while allowing civic pluralism ... Nor
does Ms. Field have much to say about the ludicrous descent of modern
liberalism into racial and sexual tribalism. With apologies to Ms. Field, this
descent has done far more to birth the 'furious minds' of the New Right than
the speculations of philosophers and intellectuals.
Alexandre Lefebvre,
Los Angeles Review of Books
The closest thing we have to a mole’s-eye view of
the New Right, and it is revelatory ... Few books in political theory
foreground the author’s biography as much as this one. But it lands in this
case, establishing Field’s authority to identify what unifies the leading
intellectual lights of the New Right ... Sociologically rich and intellectually
precise political theory of and for the moment ... Despite running over 400
pages, the book carries not an ounce of fat ... In Field’s culminating claim,
lies the book’s unsettling insight: despite a decline in mainstream media
coverage since the 2017 Charlottesville riots, the Hard Right never went away
... [A] Smart, stylish, scathingly critical overview of the New Right ...
Generous and withering ... An important service.
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