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Viewing the modern right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, Amy Ansell and the contributors in this volume treat the current conservative movement as an important effort to contextualize and rearticulate the truths taken for granted in the American liberal tradition.Written as a response to the apparent rightward turn in the United States, Ansell and the progressive scholars and activists gathered here argue against the view that the conservative-driven culture wars are nothing more than a symbolic battle of ideas. In a departure from previous approaches to understanding the New Right, the authors warn against pigeonholing the political right in terms of single-issue politics, such as the pro-life movement. Instead, the authors propose that the New Right, although inconsistent on policy, is ideologically coherent and a force to be reckoned with. }Viewing the modern right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, Amy Ansell and the contributors in this volume treat the current conservative movement as an important effort to contextualize and rearticulate the truths taken for granted in the American liberal tradition. Each author in this volume provides a contribution to an alternative perspective on the relevance of todays conservatism in American thought and politics. Based on a common recognition that the 1994 victory represented much more than the temporary infiltration of right-wing extremists or the publics spontaneous combustion of reactionary sentiments but rather twenty-plus years of diligent, conscientious organizing on the part of new actors on the right, the authors here agree that the American right wing continues to be a force to be reckoned with. Despite the apparent failure of the Republican Revolution and subsequent reelection of Clinton to office in 1996, the political and sociocultural forces that contributed to the 1994 victory are still very much at play, demanding that those interested in reversing the rightward drift of political opinion and government policy thoroughly understand the processes at work if another swing to the right is to be successfully combated. }