Joseph Kelly is the director of Irish and Irish American Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
the bloody crossroads where politics and culture meet
Joseph Kelly’s next book, The Biggest Lie: A Hundred Years of American Fascism, will be published by Bloomsbury in Winter 2026. It will be his third book on American democracy. He began his career in literary criticsm, with a book on James Joyce’s influence in American culture.
Joseph Kelly 