A few of the many articles outlining the John Birch influence on today’s tea partiers.
- “Confounding Father: The Tea Party’s Cold War Roots,” by Sean Wilentz in The New Yorker. October 19, 2010. available online at http://www.newyorker.com
- “Crashing the Tea Party,” by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam in the New York Times, August 16, 2011 available on line at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html?ref=todayspaper
- “Tea’d Off,” by Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair, January 2011 available at http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/hitchens-201101
- “Tea & Crackers: How corporate interest and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster,” by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone, October 14, 2010 available at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904
- “Special Report: Freedom Works and the John Birch Society Problem,” by Devin Burghart & Leonard Zeskind, June 20, 2011 at the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights available at http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/tea-party-nationalism