Gender and the Fury: The Making of the New Right
Book presentation with Laura K. Field, with a response by Dorit Geva
In Furious Minds, , who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right鈥攖he network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism. This movement includes figures such as Patrick Deneen, Christopher Rufo, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance. Their agenda is built to last, and it has dire long-term implications for liberal democracy.
The New Right has precedents in American history, but it is distinct for its youthfulness, misogyny, and extraordinary successes鈥攎ost notably the elevation of Vance to the vice presidency. The movement鈥攚hich draws together associates of the right-wing Claremont Institute, National Conservatives, Postliberals, and the Hard Right鈥攁dvocates nationalist economics, tight borders, isolationism, and reactionary social values. It helped to strategize January 6th and created Project 2025. But above all, the New Right is engaged in a vast culture war against modern liberal pluralism. It is determined to harness state power and use it in new, illiberal ways, from college campuses to the international scene鈥攁ll driven by the fantasy of restoring a pure America.
Following Laura Fields' presentation, at the University of Vienna, will deliver a response. There will then be time for questions from the public.
The event is co-organised by in the frame of her project 鈥淭he Two Sarahs: Victimhood in the Bible and its Reception鈥� (Grantnumber: 10.55776/V1047), and the R and the .