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The Right Has Been Weird for a Long Time
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The Right Has Been Weird for a Long Time

With Professor Matt Dallek

In the first of our series of interviews with historians about the 2024 election, I spoke with Professor Matt Dallek, author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right. Professor Dallek examines how the John Birch Society (JBS), a far-right group active in the 1960s, came to shape Republican politics today.

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Skipped History
Skipped History
Interviews with top historians about their latest work. Mainly educational, often funny. Conveniently, most of the jokes are about people too far underground to punch back.
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