Profiles on the Right: Brian Brown
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marraige Brian Brown, perhaps most infamous for his tendency to equate the LGBTQ community to pedophiles, is the current president of the...
View ArticleNazism, Godwin’s Law, and the Far Right
There is an internet adage coined in the 1990s by Mike Godwin called Godwin’s Law. The rule states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the possibility of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler...
View ArticleRight Wing Messaging on Marriage Equality Continues to Evolve
As we watched New Jersey, Illinois, and Hawaii become the 14th, 15th, and 16th states to embrace marriage equality in the last 30 days, it’s worth taking a look back at how the U.S. Right Wing has...
View ArticleProfiles on the Right: Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is an anti-immigrant group founded in 1979 and is currently one of the United States’s leading anti-immigrant organizations. According to their...
View ArticleProfiles on the Right: Young America’s Foundation / Young Americans for...
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is a conservative youth activism organization that offers college students across the United States a variety of outlets for promoting Right-Wing ideology. YAF...
View ArticleConservatism: Racism When You Need It
In the Winter 1999 issue of The Public Eye Magazine, PRA printed an excerpt from Founder and President Emerita Jean Hardisty’s book Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch...
View ArticleThe Tea Party, the John Birch Society, and the Fear of “Mob Rule”: An...
Claire Conner, author of Wrapped in the Flag Claire Conner’s parents were early members of the John Birch Society (JBS), an aggressively right-wing organization that was founded in 1958 by Robert...
View ArticleNeoliberalizing Public Higher Ed: The Threat of Free Market Ideology
When we talk about the privatization of public education, we often think of K-12 education. Certainly, the growth of charter schools and voucher programs and attacks on teachers unions indicate that...
View ArticleBirth of the Alt Right
Click here for a PDF version of this article This article appears in the Winter 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their...
View ArticleThe Triumph of the Lie: How Honesty and Morality Died in Right-Wing Politics
This article is an online feature of the Summer 2017 issue of The Public Eye. Subscribe today! This is how lies move to normalization: A small “white lie” is put forward, just to clarify a point. A...
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