Laura K. Field

Laura K. Field is a writer and political analyst. Her early education was in Canada before she later moved to the United States to study at the University of Texas at Austin. Her first book is titled Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right which was published in 2025.

Life She graduated from University of Alberta, and University of Texas at Austin. She taught at Rhodes College, Georgetown University, and American University.

She was a fellow at the Niskanen Center, and Brookings Institution.

Academic research Field, in her 2025 book, Furious Minds, has tried to indicate the intellectual brain trust supporting Trump's Project 2025 movement by identifying and documenting the top 35 participants in the New Right movement which encompasses Claremonters, Postliberals, National Conservatives and the Hard Right. She starts the study with her review of leading academic figures for the MAGA New Right, which she views as originating with academic scholars Leo Strauss and Harry Jaffa. The list of scholars she identifies is presented as including the following participants some or whom are retired or deceased as of 2025, listed as:

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