Interpreting the New Right

Laura K. Field could not have picked a better month for the release of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. At the beginning of November, Kevin Roberts’ defense of Tucker Carlson set off a firestorm in the activist class over whether the “new right” is now too right. There was an ever-flowing stream of “takes” about how now-mainstream movements like national conservatism and postliberalism relate to the seedy underbelly of the right represented by Nick Fuentes or Curtis Yarvin. The basic identity of conservatism and “the right” is the topic du jour.