Book Talk | Chelsea Ebin | The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group on Monday, November 17th (5:30-7:00 PM) for a book talk with Chelsea Ebin. She will discuss her new book The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building with Joe Lowndes.

Chelsea Ebin is an assistant professor of political science and international relations at Drew University, author of The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building, and coeditor of Male Supremacism in the United States: From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right. She is a co-founder of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism and a fellow at the Far Right Analysis Network.

Joe Lowndes is a scholar of US politics at Hunter College, with a specific focus on right-wing politics, populism, and race. Among other publications, he is the author of From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism (Yale University Press), and co-author with Daniel Martinez HoSang of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press).  Along with scholarly work, he is published frequently in public venues including the Washington Post and The New Republic.  He is currently co-editing a volume titled The Politics of the Multiracial Right (New York University Press in 2025).; and he is at work on another book, Adventures in Post-Democracy, which seeks to explain the growing authoritarian trend in American political culture through a chronicle of his ethnographic work in right-wing spaces over the last decade (University of California Press 2025). Before coming to Hunter, Lowndes was Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon.