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Carol Mason

Carol Mason, PhD, is the author of several books that research different aspects of the Right, including Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy, and a forthcoming book, From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary. She lives and teaches in Kentucky.

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Religion Dispatches
This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In October 2024, a…
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Public Eye
Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.
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Public Eye
How Taylor Caldwell Set the Mood for the Far Right
Taylor Caldwell’s novels, published in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, breathed life into anti-Communist conspiracy theories and motivated right-wing women to take political action with lasting impact today.
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