Books by Kristin Kobes du Mez
“Jesus and John Wayne is the story of Goldwater masculinity in the Republican Party. Du Mez is a terrific scholar and writer. She’s from the evangelical world and she’s telling the story of cultural shifts in evangelical Christianity. She goes through all of the different masculinist portrayals and cultural visions that have been closely tied to evangelicalism and that have really transformed evangelicalism in the United States. She refers to movies and books and all these cultural artifacts.” Read more...
Laura Field, Political Scientist
Interviews where books by Kristin Kobes du Mez were recommended
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The Concept of the Political
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One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
by Kristin Kobes du Mez -
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Liberalism as a Way of Life
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The Limits of Critique
by Rita Felski
The best books on MAGA, recommended by Laura Field
The best books on MAGA, recommended by Laura Field
While often associated with populism and economic dissatisfaction, the success of the MAGA movement in the United States is also rooted in a distinctive set of ideas about culture, identity, authority, and national renewal. Political theorist Laura Field recommends five books that explore the movement’s intellectual challenge to liberal democracy, from the work of Carl Schmitt in 1930s Germany to cultural shifts in evangelical Christianity today.
