Laura K Field
@lkatfield.bsky.social
Writer, political theorist in DC. My book, Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right is now out. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico.
www.lkfield.com
American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Brookings
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American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Brookings
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I’ve learned so much from “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field. 5 ⭐️ @lkatfield.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I’ve learned so much from “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field. 5 ⭐️ @lkatfield.bsky.social
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Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
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Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Speaker Announcement 🎙️
Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
Dr. @lkatfield.bsky.social, expert on American far-right populist intellectualism & author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, will be joining us for the #PrinciplesFirst 2026 Summit: America 250
Get your tickets today!
www.principlesfirst.us/summit/the-2...
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I'm digging into @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds and loving it - lots to chew on and engagingly written.
Furious Minds
“[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I'm digging into @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds and loving it - lots to chew on and engagingly written.
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The best book to track the reactionary legal community that Eastman was and is part of is @lkatfield.bsky.social
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Furious Minds
“[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...
press.princeton.edu
January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The best book to track the reactionary legal community that Eastman was and is part of is @lkatfield.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Hell of a time to be reading “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by @lkatfield.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Hell of a time to be reading “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by @lkatfield.bsky.social
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Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
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If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, and not fascism, were the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, and not fascism, were the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice
Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun
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January 25, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice
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These bootlicking fucks
January 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
These bootlicking fucks
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To repeat: Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
To repeat: Abolish ICE.
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I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.
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I think it probably is important to know that this was many outnumbered 9:1 being beaten on the ground before he was shot. Not in a car. Not running. ICE will likely come up with some reason why they were afraid for their lives. But you don't need to watch.
January 24, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I think it probably is important to know that this was many outnumbered 9:1 being beaten on the ground before he was shot. Not in a car. Not running. ICE will likely come up with some reason why they were afraid for their lives. But you don't need to watch.
This is so lucid and helpful from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The situation is awful and could get a lot worse obviously but also: the country is vast, the authoritarianism is unpopular, and nothing will be settled anytime soon. So power on.
January 24, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This is so lucid and helpful from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. The situation is awful and could get a lot worse obviously but also: the country is vast, the authoritarianism is unpopular, and nothing will be settled anytime soon. So power on.
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CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"
January 24, 2026 at 2:24 AM
CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"
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genuinely stunning image
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
genuinely stunning image
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In her Lawfare Lecture series, @lkatfield.bsky.social discusses the intellectual movements behind the MAGA new right.
You can watch the first three lectures on Lawfare's YouTube page. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
You can watch the first three lectures on Lawfare's YouTube page. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
January 23, 2026 at 6:44 PM
In her Lawfare Lecture series, @lkatfield.bsky.social discusses the intellectual movements behind the MAGA new right.
You can watch the first three lectures on Lawfare's YouTube page. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
You can watch the first three lectures on Lawfare's YouTube page. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Happening next week! Register here for this online event: tinyurl.com/3dpcc6wr
Join us on January 26 for a virtual discussion with Stefan Borg on his new book, The Return of the Common Good.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Happening next week! Register here for this online event: tinyurl.com/3dpcc6wr
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In case you missed it, we have published a recording of our event with William Galston on his book, Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social @kristenrosec.bsky.social
Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech
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January 23, 2026 at 4:41 PM
In case you missed it, we have published a recording of our event with William Galston on his book, Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social @kristenrosec.bsky.social
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They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...
The White House posted a digitally altered image showing a demonstrator involved in interrupting a church service in Minnesota last weekend crying as she was arrested on Thursday.
A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.
A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.
White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying
The New York Times ran the image posted by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, as well as the one posted by the White House through an A.I. detection system. It concluded that the White House’s version showed signs of manipulation.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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This book also shows that no matter how screwed up and terrible you think these people are, they are even more screwed up and terrible than that.
Hats off to Laura K. Field for this brilliant book, one of the most essential of the MAGA Era thus far (my disorganized Goodreads impression attached)
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Joseph Stieb's review of Furious Minds
5/5: An absolutely essential guide to the many tribes of the MAGA New Right. This intellectual movement has arrived at maturity in the early 2020s after the chaos of the first Trump years. Field excav...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
This book also shows that no matter how screwed up and terrible you think these people are, they are even more screwed up and terrible than that.
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Hats off to Laura K. Field for this brilliant book, one of the most essential of the MAGA Era thus far (my disorganized Goodreads impression attached)
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Joseph Stieb's review of Furious Minds
5/5: An absolutely essential guide to the many tribes of the MAGA New Right. This intellectual movement has arrived at maturity in the early 2020s after the chaos of the first Trump years. Field excav...
www.goodreads.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Hats off to Laura K. Field for this brilliant book, one of the most essential of the MAGA Era thus far (my disorganized Goodreads impression attached)
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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👀 67% increase in the number of applications to the Toronto political science PhD program from last year, 92% increase from 2024 👀
January 14, 2026 at 12:29 AM
👀 67% increase in the number of applications to the Toronto political science PhD program from last year, 92% increase from 2024 👀