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Brian J. Auten is an independent scholar of Cold War strategy, politics, and religion. He is the author of Carter’s Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy (University of Missouri Press, 2008).
JournalSummer 2026CultureEducationBrian Auten
There was nothing remotely directly or indirectly “woke” or “leftist” about Mrs. Higuchi’s public school classroom. There was no “indoctrination.” It wasn’t about empathy or sympathy. Instead, it was something much more classically humanist — perhaps even personalist. She taught love.
Brian AutenBooks
Sunshine's 'Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism' clearly establishes that the counterculture of the "long 1960s" is not merely a left-wing or so-called "cultural Marxist" story, but that its appropriation and its impact is also discerned on the political right.
Brian AutenFeaturedEvangelicalism
Brian Auten defines the evangelical dark web and offers initial thoughts on how to mount a counter-insurgency against them.
