David Austin Walsh is a historian and writer. His first book, Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right (2024), argues the mainstream conservative movement and the far right have been intertwined for nearly a century, and both were born out of a “right-wing popular front” linking racists, anti-Semites, and fascists in a broad coalition opposed to socialism, communism, and New Deal liberalism. He teaches at the University of Virginia.