Rethinking the Fringe: A Roundtable Discussion on Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right (Yale UP, 2024)

David Austin Walsh, Yale University 
Lila Berman, Temple University
Hasia Diner, New York University 
Joseph Fronczak, Princeton University
 
Rethinking the Fringe: A Roundtable Discussion brings together scholars of American Jewish history, the American conservative movement, and American fascism to rethink how historians understand and categorize “fringe” groups on the right. Are the labels “fringe,” “extreme,” or “radical” accurate or even useful in how we understand the right? And, particularly since 10/07 and the intense focus in the media and among college administrators in addressing the rise of antisemitism on college campuses — which tends to be coded as left-wing—how do we understand the role of antisemitism on the American right, both historically and in our contemporary moment? 
 
David Austin Walsh is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. His popular work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Dissent, The Nation, and other publications; and his academic work has appeared in the Journal of American History and American Jewish History. His first book, Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, will be published on April 16 by Yale University Press. 
 
Co-sponsored by Yale Program for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism; and Whitney Humanities Center

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