Trump's Political Revolution - The Ideology and History behind the MAGA movement
De Atlantische Blik | Jan 26 2026 | 01:04:12
In the first year of the second Trump administration we have seen a true political revolution in the US, which radically changed the way Washington looked at the world and America's role in it. In this special extra long edition of the podcast De Atlantische Blik we speak to Matthijs Lok, a historian of ideas at the UvA, and Jack Thompson, an Americanist at the UvA, about some of the idea's that are behind this administration and their historical background.
Read more here:
Laura Field, Furious Minds. The making of the MAGA New Right https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255262/furious-minds?srsltid=AfmBOoqE68Lx7GCn4eMqWHIdErEb1zgcziLY1OKbr-IPmPvJ7zbXEFWo
Interview with Matthijs Lok (in Dutch): “De strijd om de erfenis van de Verlichting deint al eeuwen door de trans-Atlantische relatie”
https://www.atlcom.nl/magazine/de-strijd-tussen-voor-en-tegenstanders-van-verlichting-deint-als-een-eeuwige-golf-door-de-trans-atlantische-relatie/
Read more here:
Laura Field, Furious Minds. The making of the MAGA New Right https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255262/furious-minds?srsltid=AfmBOoqE68Lx7GCn4eMqWHIdErEb1zgcziLY1OKbr-IPmPvJ7zbXEFWo
Interview with Matthijs Lok (in Dutch): “De strijd om de erfenis van de Verlichting deint al eeuwen door de trans-Atlantische relatie”
https://www.atlcom.nl/magazine/de-strijd-tussen-voor-en-tegenstanders-van-verlichting-deint-als-een-eeuwige-golf-door-de-trans-atlantische-relatie/