Jason Blakely is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu. He is the author of We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics and Power (2020) and Interpretive Social Science (2018).

• Introduction: in search of ideologyPart I: Strange roots: early American ideology1. Liberal by nature: varieties of classical liberalism2. Other foundings: civic republicanism and white supremacyPart II: Polarizations: the left and the right3. Evolving liberalism: progressives versus neoliberals4. In the name of the past: conservatives and neoconservatives5. There is no “fascist minimum”: fascistic bundles and hybridizations6. Is socialism still taboo? From Marxism to Bernie SandersPart III: Ideological scrambling: beyond the left and the right7. Hiding in plain sight: nationalism and multiculturalism8. There are many feminisms: the advent of sexual politics9. The meaning of the earth: the challenges of ecological politicsConclusion: the age of ideologies

Accessible and rich, detailed and comprehensive, well-argued and well written … it helps us better make sense of this crazy political world in which we live … a book that will necessarily find itself on to the syllabi of almost every course in political philosophy ... At a time when academia is in crisis, and many academics are busily chasing fads, here is a bright light.