Movies we want to watch with TNR contributing editor Rumaan Alam
Livestreamed on August 4, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Stuck at home? Join us at the movies. Contributing editor Rumaan Alam will lead a virtual discussion with guests Alex Shephard, Jo Livingstone, and Kyle Chayka on cinematic portraits of some truly compelling minds—Marion Stokes, Milton Glaser, Camille Claudel, and Christo—this August. Watch the films and enjoy the virtual talk backs every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in August. 

August 4: Rumaan Alam and Alex Shephard, TNR staff writer, with director Matt Wolf on Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Recorder is a film about media and media consumption. In a moment when that’s our primary tether to one another and society at large, should we be thinking more critically about what and how we watch?

Rent Recorder.

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Author Rick Perlstein and TNR editor Chris Lehmann discuss Perlstein’s new book, Reaganland: America’s Right Turn
1976–1980

Livestreamed on August 20, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Rick Perlstein
Chris Lehmann

Please join The New Republic’s editor, Chris Lehmann, and Rick Perlstein as they discuss Perlstein’s new work, Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976–1980.

From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.


Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga’s final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement.

In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford’s defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economic decline; a cadre of secretive “New Right” organizers deploying state-of-the-art technology, bending political norms to the breaking point—and Reagan’s own unyielding optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the world’s “shining city on a hill.”

Meanwhile, a civil war broke out in the Democratic Party. When President Jimmy Carter called Americans to a new ethic of austerity, Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with horror, challenging him for reelection. Carter’s Oval Office tenure was further imperiled by the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, near-catastrophe at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, aviation accidents, serial killers on the loose, and endless gas lines.

Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”—and prevailed. Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976–1980 is the story of how that happened, tracing conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.

Purchase Reaganland.

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