‘Furious Minds’ Review: The Road to MAGA

In “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right,” Laura K. Field probes the intellectual origins of the form of rowdy conservatism associated with the current president. Ms. Field, a fellow at the Niskanen Center, engages with the Trump-era populist right using an approach she terms “ideas first,” focusing on the ideas and speeches of influential actors and thinkers within the New Right, whom she divides into three groups: the Claremonters, postliberals and National Conservatives.