Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi, faculty at the University of San Francisco.

And today just have a great guest, someone whose book I learned about some months back, I don't know it might have been over a year and was like

I cannot wait for that book to come out so we can have that person on and that person is Dr. Lauren Lassab Shepard. So

Dr. Shepard, thanks for being here.

Thank you. It's great to be here.

So just let me tell folks about you before we get going.

You are an instructor in the Department of Education and Human Development at the University of New Orleans and in UyPuy Society for U.S. Intellectual History Community Scholar.

Your work's been featured Washington Post, Time magazine, Political magazine, The Nation,

Jacobin, The Daily Beast, and other places.

And we're here to talk about your book, Resistance from the Right, Conservatives and the

Campus Wars. And friends, you might be thinking, wow, that's a from the right, conservatives and the campus wars.

And friends you might be thinking, wow, that's a timely book because that's happening

right now.

It must have been written, you know, about things happening in 2019 or 20 or 21 related to COVID or Black Lives Matter.

But in fact, it's written about the 1960s

and the ways that there was just a kind of new right

of campus organizing during the 60s and the kind of fallout and influence and ripple

effects of that movement.

Let me embarrass you just by reading just a bit from page 3 and then that'll set up my first question.

The account that follows tells how right-wing students of the late 1960s

following the guidance of anti-New Deal elders who sponsored them financially and professionally,

participated in an astroturf mobilization against a so-called liberal establishment in higher education

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