Book Launch : Laura Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

In Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, Laura Field, who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right—the 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.

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Laura K. Field is a nonresident fellow in the Governance Studies program at Brookings, and both a writer and political theorist in Washington, D.C. She holds a Ph.D. in political theory and public law from the University of Texas at Austin and has held faculty positions at Rhodes College, Georgetown University, and American University. Field is one of the country’s foremost experts on populist intellectualism and the American right. Her book “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” will be published with Princeton University Press in November, 2025.

Field is currently a visiting scholar in residence at American University and a senior advisor for the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University. Read more

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Studies in the School of International Service. Currently Chair of the Department of Global Inquiry, he has previously been Director of AU Honors, Associate Dean of SIS, and the university's Director of General Education. Read more

Dr. Samuel Kimbriel is a political philosopher, author, and founding director of Aspen’s Philosophy & Society Initiative. The Initiative seeks to reignite a national tradition of public philosophy, enabling us to grapple with our largest and most haunting issues of societal purpose—What is justice? What is a good life? What is society for? Read more

Osita Nwanevu is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a columnist at the Guardian. He is a former staff writer at The New Republic, the New Yorker, and Slate, and his work has also appeared in the New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Gawker. Read more .

Sarah Posner is the author of . Her 2008 book, God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, explored the unholy alliance between the Republican Party and prosperity televangelists. Read more

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