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Sep 20, 2023 | 
sfchronicle.com | Matthew Dallek
In May, an email landed in my inbox. The correspondent, who’d come across my new book on the John Birch Society, wanted to share how members of this far-right anti-communist group won control of his local Parent Teacher Association in the early 1960s at San Rafael Elementary in Pasadena. In one way, the story was similar to the pressures that schools are seeing now.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
fenews.co.uk | Matthew Dallek |Sabine Hossenfelder
Oxford Business College (OBC) is pleased to announce it has qualified for the 2023 South Fast Growth 50 list, in the Fastest Growing Consumer Services firm category. This accolade recognises Oxford Business College as one of the fastest growing firms in the South of England out of a total of 1,381,410 businesses. Fast growth firms – which are normally defined as achieving 20% growth per annum – make up less than 1% of the UK business population but represent 50% of the total SME turnover output.
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Sep 3, 2023 | 
ordonews.com | Matthew Dallek
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Sep 3, 2023 | 
socialnews.xyz | Matthew Dallek
Author and professor Matthew Dallek joins Major Garrett for this weekend edition of "The Takeout" to discuss his new book, "Birchers: How John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right," and how a group from the '60s may have paved the way for Donald Trump's political rise. #news #politics #trumpCBS News Streaming Network is the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service from CBS News and Stations, available free to everyone with access to the Internet.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Nathan Robinson |Matthew Dallek |Mychal Denzel Smith
Even at the peak of its influence in the early 1960s, the John Birch Society was regarded as something of a joke by liberals and conservatives alike. The Birchers were so extreme that many of them thought Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon were too soft.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
historynewsnetwork.org | Matthew Dallek |Lauren Thompson |Jan Dutkiewicz |Gabriel N. Rosenberg
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4/21/2023 Roundup
How Fox News Helped Break the American Right
by Matthew Dallek
The Republican Party has long struggled to keep extremists within its ranks at bay, if partly for political reasons. But the rise of Fox News has destroyed the guardrails older generations of mainstream conservatives set up against conspiracists, hatemongers, and bigots.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Matthew Dallek
Guest EssayApril 19, 2023, 9:19 a.m. ETA 1962 sign from the John Birch Society imploring people to impeach Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren.Credit...Duane Howell/The Denver Post, via Getty ImagesSend any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Matthew DallekMr. Dallek is a historian and a professor of political management at George Washington University’s College of Professional Studies.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
historynewsnetwork.org | Matthew Dallek
SOURCE: New York Times 4/19/2023 Roundup tags: far right, Fox News, media by Matthew Dallek Matthew Dallek, a historian and a professor of political management at George Washington University’s College of Professional Studies, is the author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.
The settlement in the Dominion-Fox case is a moment of reckoning for Fox News.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
politico.com | Matthew Dallek
Debunking a Longstanding Myth About William F. BuckleyThe popular notion that the National Review founder expelled the fringe from the conservative movement is wrong. Political raconteurs long assumed that William F. Buckley Jr. was his movement’s de facto boundary enforcer, keeping true conservatism clean and free of its seedier aspects. But the lines between mainstream and fringe were murkier than these portraits suggest.
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
libraryjournal.com | Matthew Dallek
In this crisp history of the John Birch Society (JBS), Dallek (political management, George Washington Univ.;
Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security) details its influence on the radicalization of the modern Republican party. Named after a Christian missionary killed by communists in China, the JBS was founded in 1958 by retired candy executive Robert H.W. Welch and other anti–New Deal business owners.
