archive

What informs the Tea Party

Chauncey DeVega on the cult of Ronald Reagan and the racist origins of American conservatism. Robert C. Smith on his book Conservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same. The American “precariat”: What role does racism play in fueling support for the Tea Party movement? Joe Palmer thinks he knows what informs the Tea Party. John Dean on Sarah Palin and the dumbing down of the American presidency. Sarah Palin, Anyown, and the Constitutional Reformation: Normal America and free America are at war with the Left, and anyone one who is not ready to fire back when fired at need not apply. A look at how the Tea Party was foretold by Sinclair Lewis' classic It Can't Happen Here. Spengler on how longevity gives life to Tea Party. The Tea Party's Vendetta: After two years of Obama's foreign policy pragmatism toward Latin America, Republicans in Congress are threatening to turn back the clock to Cold War times. Critics of the Tea Party movement might think the only college at which the conservative activist group belongs is the virtual Glenn Beck University, but students who have started Tea Party organizations at a number of campuses might beg to differ. R. Christopher Whalen's Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream could be the Das Kapital of the Tea Party Revolution. The Tea Party Troubadours: Meet the artists providing the soundtrack to patriotism. Bedtime for little patriots: The rise of the right-wing children’s book.