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Brad Onishi on "American Caesar": Inside the Movement to End American Democracy
Today is release day for Brad Onishi's new book American Caesar, and Matt Taylor sits down with him for a deep dive into the ideas inside it. Together they trace how three seemingly separate strands of the American right — Protestant Reconstructionism, radical traditionalist Catholicism, and Silicon Valley technocracy — are converging around a shared vision: an end to liberal democracy and the rise of an American strongman, an "American Caesar."
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Books mentioned:
📕 American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy by Brad Onishi — out September 15: https://static.macmillan.com/static/essentials/american-caesar-9781250427922/
Live events:
🎤 Brad in Portland at Annie Bloom's Books — September 16, 7 PM: https://annieblooms.com/event/2026-09-16/reading-bradley-b-onishi
Full tour dates: https://axismundinetwork.substack.com/p/the-american-caesar-book-tour
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American Caesar is out today — grab a copy and leave a review if you can.
Upcoming events with Brad:
📍 Sept 16 — Annie Bloom's, Portland, 7 PM
📍 Sept 22 — Amherst College
📍 Sept 23 — Northeastern University (with Sarah Ricardy Swartz)
📍 Oct 1 — NYU Religion and Media Center (with Emma Goldberg, NYT)
📍 Oct 11 — Knoxville, TN
📍 Oct 12 — Nashville, TN
📍 Oct 14 — Memphis, TN

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