The Public Eye, Fall 2021

A tumultuous 2021 had us reeling from challenges to Roe v. Wade to attacks on public education. This issue focuses on the intersections of these issues, and the influence that right-wing ideas have on our cultural leanings. Carol Mason looks at the influence of Taylor Cladwell on the global rise of right-wing populism. Clint Heacock considers the longstanding aspiration of conservative homeschoolers to inspire a mass defection from public schools has found new traction amid an era of pandemic school closures and right-wing attacks on public education. A roundtable discussion moderated by Koki Mendis discusses reproductive justice and the Right's strategies to eliminate bodily autonomy. Jasmine Banks investigates how the rash of chaotic and sometimes violent anti-critical race theory protests at local school boards find some of their roots in a familiar source: the right-wing billionaire networks of Charles Koch. And finally, in an author Q&A, Harini Rajagopalan talks with author Daniel Martinez HoSang about liberation movements and the broader dismantling of failed systems in order to build a truly equitable society.