Lawrence Rosenthal is the founder and executive director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements, University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at UC Berkeley in the Sociology and Italian Studies Departments and was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Naples in Italy. He has studied the Right in the United States and in Italy and is currently working on a study of the contemporary American Right in comparison to movements of the Right in 20th century Europe.
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Published in: Transformation: OpinionEmpire of resentmentEmotions can be politically transformative; just look at Donald Trump and his supporters.
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Published in: HomeThe Donald and the DuceIs the Trump movement a variant of fascism? In the weeks following the 8 November election will organized...
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Published in: HomeUS: behind the Republican implosionThe profound dysfunction on display in the Republican party’s contest for its 2016 presidential nomination reflects...
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Published in: HomeOccupy Wall Street and the Tea Party: bedfellows?The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street are expressions of pain from differing points of view of the same social...