Fox News host Glenn Beck has a unique interpretation of the Founding Fathers: in part, he fancies them men of God and figures that they might have been okay with secession. But Beck has his own ...

Perhaps the least surprising revelation of the presidential cycle so far can be found in David Corn’s piece today on Dr. Ben Carson’s enthusiasm for the famous Bircher crank W. Cleon Skousen, best ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Skousen’s book was a hyperbolic, far-from-sophisticated Cold War denouncement of ...

Last year, Jeffrey Rosen wrote a short essay for the New York Times Magazine on what he called the “radical constitutionalism” of the tea partiers. He claimed that the constitutional positions of ...

An Arizona charter high school allegedly required its students to read a conservative author beloved by pundit Glenn Beck and considered one of the philosophical forebears of the tea party, according ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To hear Mitt Romney tell it, President Barack Obama’s three years at Harvard Law ...

Dave Weigel points out the hypocrisy of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s professed admiration for W. Cleon Skousen, the Glenn Beck ideological godfather and anti-Communist oddball, at this weekend’s Values ...

SKOUSEN’S INFLUENCE…. At the Values Voter Summit over the weekend, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) mentioned his reading habits. “Lately,” Perry said, “I’ve found myself going back to a book that’s titled ...

On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America’s new breed of angry conservative. Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World ...