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In an essay in Jacobin, Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate Cihan Tuğal assesses the threat posed by Trump and the far right in the United States. He concludes...Read more about Measuring the Far-Right Threat

The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies has curated a collection of resources on the right wing in the US, including articles and blog posts from the Journal of Right-Wing Studies...Read more about Shedding Light on US Election Results

In this New York Times...Read more about Trying to Capitalize on Anti-Migrant Riots Could Backfire on U.K.’s Far Right

This Guardian...Read more about JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration

A new article in Critical Sociology by Cihan Tuğal, faculty affiliate of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, uses humorously dark parables...Read more about Of Elephants and Scholars: From Criticism to Reconstruction in Sociology

Vibeke Schou Tjalve, a Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate, has published "Corporate Cosmos," an important report on the privatization of space, the politics of it and the...Read more about Politics in Outer Space

Center for Right-Wing Studies affiliates are quoted in this Berkeley News article on echoes of European fascism in the United States....Read more about Fascism shattered Europe a century ago — and historians hear echoes today in the U.S.

Arlie Hochschild, Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate, is the author of Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (The New Press, 2024). In this book,...Read more about Stolen Pride

Aaron Coy Moulton, Center for Right-Wing Studies Visiting Scholar, is author of this article in Time ...Read more about The Long, Sordid History of Foreign Governments Courting Members of Congress

The new book Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion, co-edited by Maureen Eger, faculty affiliate of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, is...Read more about Migration Stigma

CRWS awarded small research grants to three UCB graduate students - Tak-Huen Chau, (Political Science),Kirstin Krusell (Sociology), and AJ Solovy (History...Read more about Center for Right-Wing Studies Awards New Grants for Students

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, is quoted at length in this ...Read more about Nonprofits in the MAGA Agenda

Eliah Bures, Senior Fellow of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, is featured as a guest speaker on WNPR’s “The Colin McEnroe Show”. In this episode,...Read more about We’re Having Crisis Fatigue

Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate, J. Bradford DeLong, has released a new episode of his economics podcast, Hexapodia Is the Key Insight! The episode discusses discrepancies between economic data and consumer confidence, emphasizing the effects of...Read more about The “Vibecession” Is Losing Its Vibe

The latest article in the Journal of Right-Wing Studies examines the pivotal role of Merwin K. Hart in shaping American conservatism in the mid-20th century. Through meticulous research, the...Read more about How the "Menace of Globalism" Shaped the New Deal

In the latest Journal of Right-Wing Studies ...Read more about A Constellation Approach to Identifying Extremism in US Conservative Movements

Drawing on her experiences as a kid accompanying her father on house calls, Carole Joffe, faculty affiliate of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, discusses the effect of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling on pregnancy care...Read more about The Impact of Dobbs on Pregnancy Care

John Douglass, faculty affiliate of the Center for Right-Wing Studies has published an essay regarding right-wing attacks on higher education. Comparing examples from across the globe, Douglass discusses the effect of growing neonationalist populism on academic communities...Read more about Confronting Legislative Attacks on Higher Education

Eliah Bures, Senior Fellow of CRWS examines the metapolitics of the European New Right (ENR) in his new article published in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. By relating US ‘culture wars’ to ENR practices, Bures analyzes ENR...Read more about Metapolitics of the European New Right

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, has coined the term “legal vigilantism” to describe a new form of right-wing activism. For example, after the Supreme Court’s recent decision banning affirmative action, America First Legal sent 200 letters...Read more about Legal Vigilantism

Before Erdogan was declared the victor in the recent elections, the New York Times published this op-ed by Cihan Tuğal...Read more about Elections in Turkey

A grand jury in New York indicted former president Donald Trump on 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records, an unprecedented event that marks the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former or sitting U.S. president. Larry Rosenthal, Chair of Berkeley Center for...Read more about Trump Indicted

The Journal of Right-Wing Studies, a project of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, has a new blog, "On the Right: Current Topics in Right-Wing Studies" In the first post, Carlos...Read more about "On the Right" - New Blog from the Journal of Right-Wing Studies

In his new book, Dylan Riley, faculty affiliate of Center for Right-Wing Studies, compiled over a hundred short essays that encourage us to think about society—and social theory—in new ways. Through sociological perspectives, Riley analyzes the...Read more about Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present

Issue Zero presents a roundtable discussion on the state of Right-Wing Studies, featuring twelve scholars from a variety of disciplinary and...Read more about Journal of Right-Wing Studies

In his new book Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, J....Read more about Slouching Towards Utopia

ISSI's Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies announces the launch of a new Open Access journal in partnership with eScholarship at the University of California. The Journal of Right-Wing Studies aims to shed light on the politics of the moment by investigating the nature and origins...Read more about New Website for Journal of Right-Wing Studies

Alina Polyakova, the co-author of this Foreign Affairs article with Daniel Fried, is an affiliate of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies and also a former CRWS Graduate Fellow. Polyakova and Fried discuss ...Read more about No Peace at Any Price in Ukraine

In this article in Terrorism and Political Violence, Tanjev Schultz analyzes the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Germany, one of the most severe cases of terrorism in Germany after World War II, and how this case illuminates...Read more about Transatlantic Ties of the Far Right

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies, explained Great Replacement Theory on...Read more about How 'Replacement Theory' Became Prominent in Mainstream US Politics

The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies announces the launch of a new Open Access journal in partnership with eScholarship at the University of California. The Journal of Right-Wing Studies aims to shed light on the politics of the moment by investigating the nature and origins of...Read more about CFP: Journal of Right-Wing Studies

John Douglass, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies and Center for Research on Social Change, has published several op-eds related to his recent book Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats and the Future of Higher...Read more about Neo-Nationalism and Universities

On September 15, 2021, Tanjev Schultz, Professor of Journalism, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, discussed the ties between far-right movements in Germany and the US by looking at the NSU case in Germany. Sponsored by ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies and...Read more about Germany's 9/11? Neo-Nazis and Right-Wing Terrorism in Germany and Their Links to US Actors

A new anthology, Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy...Read more about Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy

On the podcast "Democracy Nerd," Larry Rosenthal, Chair of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies, discusses ...Read more about How Right-Wing Populism Fuels the Empire of Resentment

ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies welcomes Tanjev Schultz, Professor of Journalism at Johannes Gutenberg Univeristy in Mainz, Germany. In both his academic and journalistic work, he investigates the far right. While in residence (through October 2021), Schultz will be...Read more about Visiting Scholar Spotlight: Tanjev Schultz

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies, gave a talk titled "Morphed: How America’s Right-Wing Populism Was Transformed, Virulently, in 2020" with an introduction by Troy Duster, founding...Read more about How America's Right-Wing Populism was Transformed in 2020

Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border is a new book by Jennifer Johnson, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies....Read more about Grandmothers on Guard

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies, was a panelist for "Global Connections: White Supremacy: How Big A Threat, How To Conquer It." The panel was moderated by Robert Siegel (NPR, All Things Considered) and also included Kathleen Belew (author of...Read more about The Threat of White Supremacy

The New York Times explores the January 6th pro-Trump mob attack through a historical lens in an interview with ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies Larry Rosenthal...Read more about Making Sense of the Capitol Attack

In this article, Berkeley News interviews Larry Rosenthal, Chair of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies, on the...Read more about Biden Must Mount Campaign Against Right-Wing Extremists

An interview with ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies chair Larry Rosenthal about his new book Empire of Resentment: Populism's...Read more about Empire of Resentment

ISSI's Center for Right Wing Studies chair Larry Rosenthal was featured in an August episode of this podcast where he spoke about his new...Read more about The Links Between Populism and Nationalism

In this Foreign Policy article, ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies Visiting Scholar Eliah Bures questions the application of...Read more about When Everything Is a Crisis, Nothing Is