powerful and practical essay by our alum Dr Alina Polyakova

Most commentators focus on the showmanship of the new “trickster” autocrats, their masculinism, and manipulation of institutions and rules. In the article below, I discuss what manipulative “performance” can and cannot accomplish: escholarship.org/content/qt5368… 2/5

The new special issue of JRWS is out today! "Gender, Sexuality, and Sociolinguistics of the Far Right," guest edited by Catherine Tebaldi and Scott Burnett. UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science ISSI Cat Tebaldi Scott Burnett #rightwingstudies #Inauguration2025 jrws.berkeley.edu/issues

Hybrid: T, Feb. 20 @ 4PM - “Policing White Supremacy” Michael German - Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and Criminal Law & Justice Center of UC Berkeley Law The New Press bit.ly/MichaelGerman

In a new Journal of Right-Wing Studies article, Aidan J. Beatty explores how sexualized antisemitism intersects with other bigotries, such as Islamophobia and anti-Black racism, revealing shared fears of sexual and racial transgression. escholarship.org/uc/item/28h9s6…

Hybrid: T, Feb. 20 @ 4PM - “Policing White Supremacy” Michael German - Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and Criminal Law & Justice Center of UC Berkeley Law The New Press bit.ly/MichaelGerman

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CRWS affiliate Bartosz Bartosz Rydliński explains "What Germany's election means for the Western Left." Read it now at Project Syndicate: project-syndicate.org/commentary/spd…

Help us unlock a $40,000 matching grant for #UCBerkeleyCRWS and our journal with your gift of any amount! #CalBigGive bit.ly/CRWS2025

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CRWS awarded grants to 3 UCB students - John Konicki, Political Science PhD Student; Jia Liang Ling, UC Berkeley Sociology Undergrad; & Natasha Shannon, Berkeley Environmental Science, Policy & Mngmt PhD Student. Their topics range from ideological resentment to Chinese immigrant support for Trump. issi.berkeley.edu/crws/research/…

From the Wall Street Journal to Jacobin, there is renewed talk on the Right's use of Gramsci. But critics argue that rightists' references to Gramsci and his mentor Lenin are just name-dropping. In the article below, I documented + journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Thank you ANSIRH for sharing the great conversation we had with Mother Jones about After Dobbs carole joffe

Rescheduled! Hybrid: M, May 12 @ 4pm - "The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building." Chelsea Ebin - Sponsored by: Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Co-sponsored by BCSR bit.ly/Ebin2025

Hybrid: M, May 12 @ 4pm - "The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building." Chelsea Ebin - Sponsored by: Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Co-sponsored by BCSR bit.ly/Ebin2025

Hybrid: M, May 12 @ 4pm - "The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building." Chelsea Ebin - Sponsored by: Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Co-sponsored by BCSR bit.ly/Ebin2025

CRWS student Tyler Leeds looks at the impact of canceled funding & new directives for art orgs. He says the right frames these moves as a return to "sanity," presenting their vision for cultural institutions as commonsense while ignoring voters' needs. news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/16/exe…

New book by CRWS affiliate carole joffe discusses how individuals have kept abortion afloat in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s removal. An article in Mother Jones magazine highlights the strategies providers have pursued to continue offering abortions. beacon.org/After-Dobbs-P2…

New in Journal of Right-Wing Studies: Dr. Sahil Kureshi reveals how India's RSS used student wing ABVP (1947-85) to control campus politics via strategic image shifts—alternating between militant Hindutva activism & peaceful service org facade. escholarship.org/uc/item/117618…