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.
The Public Eye Magazine
The Public Eye, Fall 2021
Issue
106
A tumultuous 2021 had us reeling from challenges to Roe v. Wade to attacks on public education. This issue focuses on the intersections of these issues, and the influence that right-wing ideas have on our cultural leanings. Carol Mason looks at the influence of Taylor Cladwell on the global rise of right-wing A style of politics that involves an effort to mobilize “the people” into a social or political movement around some form of anti-elitism. Such movements can be egalitarian or authoritarian, inclusive or exclusionary, forward-looking or fixated on a romanticized image of the past. Learn more . Clint Heacock considers the longstanding aspiration of conservative homeschoolers to inspire a mass defection from public schools has found new traction amid an era of pandemic school closures and right-wing attacks on public education. A roundtable discussion moderated by Koki Mendis discusses reproductive justice and the Right’s strategies to eliminate bodily autonomy. Jasmine Banks investigates how the rash of chaotic and sometimes violent anti-critical race theory protests at local school boards find some of their roots in a familiar source: the right-wing billionaire networks of Charles Koch. And finally, in an author Q&A, Harini Rajagopalan talks with author Daniel Martinez HoSang about liberation movements and the broader dismantling of failed systems in order to build a truly equitable society.
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