Laura K. Field
Liberal political theorist; senior fellow at the Niskanen Center and at the Bulwark; author of Furious Minds: Political Theory in the Age of Trump (Princeton University Press, 2025); the anchor author for this wiki
Field is a political theorist whose work focuses on how intellectual life intersects with political movements. Furious Minds is a sustained examination of the thinkers and ideas animating the MAGA New Right — covering the Claremonters, National Conservatism, Postliberalism, and the Hard Right underbelly connecting them.
Her prior academic work includes research on conservative campus culture (“On Campus Trump Fans Safe Spaces”) and related questions about the politics of higher education.
Field’s approach in Furious Minds is unusual: she takes the New Right’s intellectual claims seriously enough to engage them on their own terms while ultimately arguing that the movement represents a betrayal of the democratic commitments its thinkers claim to defend.
Cross-References
- Furious Minds — her 2025 book; primary source for this wiki
- MAGA New Right — the subject of her analysis
- The Claremonters — one of three main camps she identifies
- National Conservatism — second main camp
- Postliberalism — third main camp
- On Campus Trump Fans Safe Spaces — earlier research article