The Republican Civil War: What Liz Cheney’s Wyoming Tells us about the Past, Present, and Future of the American Right
Stephanie Muravchik
Stephanie Muravchik is coauthor, with Jon A. Shields, of Trump’s Democrats, which was published in September 2020 by the Brookings Institution Press. It is a political ethnography of three blue strongholds that flipped Republican in the 2016 election. Her research explores the intersections of politics with class, family, and religion. Her first book was American Protestantism in an Age of Psychology (Cambridge, 2011). She teaches government at Claremont McKenna College.
Jon Shields
Jon Shields is a professor of American politics and chair of the government department at Claremont McKenna College. Shields is the author or co-author of three books on the American right, including Trump’s Democrats (with Stephanie Muravchik)(Brookings, 2020) and Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University (Oxford 2016). His writings have also appeared in a wide range of popular outlets, including the Bulwark, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times.
Previously, he taught at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs and Cornell University, and he is also a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance.
His latest book on Liz Cheney , on which this talk is based, is co-authored with Stephanie Muravchik.