Will the Tea Get Cold?

Sam Tanenhaus

Print Share

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
Oxford University Press, 245 pp., $24.95

The Tea Party: Three Principles
by Elizabeth Price Foley
Cambridge University Press, 238 pp., $25.00

Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution
by Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin
Holt, 226 pp., $25.00

The impracticality of the Tea Party’s war against government, which in fact offers no serious plan to scale government back, suggests that the conservative populism of our moment is rooted not in a coherent worldview so much as in a “mood” or atmosphere of generalized, undifferentiated protest.

This article is available to subscribers only.
Please choose from one of the options below to access this article:

Purchase a trial Online Edition subscription and receive unlimited access for one week to all the content on nybooks.com. $4.99
Purchase a print subscription (20 issues per year) and also receive online access to all articles published within the last five years. $74.95
Purchase an Online Edition subscription and receive full access to all articles published by the Review since 1963. $69.00

If you already have one of these subscriptions, please be sure you are logged in to your nybooks.com account. If you subscribe to the print edition, you may also need to link your web site account to your print subscription. Click here to link your account services.