Confounding Fathers: The Tea Party’s Cold War Roots

(Historian Sean Wilentz’s article direct from THE NEW YORKER on October 18, 2010.)




US radio ahock-jock Glenn Beck

A few months ago, the cable-television
and radio host Glenn Beck began his Fox News show with one of his favorite
props: a pipe clenched between his teeth. “I’ve got my pipe,” he told his
audience, his speech slightly muddled by the stem, “because we’re going to
speak about