For most of its collective existence, the study of the right in the US has suffered from an anxious, constricted set of categories and epistemological assumptions about who exactly the conservative is. Terms such as “radical right,” “Christian Right,” and “Extreme Right” provide a less than ideal set of options for describing the nature of conservative politics-making since 1945. Like the concept of “antifundamentalism,” one which describes the fundamentalist subject as always and forever regressive and lacking in modern sensibilities, the study of the American right tends to reproduce the same historical subjects by placing them within the same analytical Read more