Radicalism

Sam and Emma host Nicole Hemmer, professor of History at Vanderbilt University, to discuss her recent book Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990’s. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Twitter’s Terms of Service strict Elon Musk-enforced parody...
Caleb Cain (@faradayspeaks) is a self-described “gamer who fell down the alt-right rabbit hole” before eventually making his way back to the left. He joins Sam to discuss the YouTube personalities who drove his radicalization as a young college dropout, what helped bring him back, and his current...
Alexandra Minna Stern, professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, joins us to discuss her book, ‘Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination.’
Author Dale Beran (@DaleBeran) joins Sam to discuss his new book, “It Came From Something Awful: How A Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Office.”
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, explains what is radicalism. Why radicalism is different from liberalism and incrementalism. Has America always had radicals. The 1990s and the “end of history”. Tom Paine, America’s original radical. Radicalism in times of c...
On today’s best of, Jacobin founding editor, Bhaskar Sunkara, explained the distinction between liberal and socialistic politics, the modern delusions of liberalism, the disconnect between the elite and grassroots of the Democratic Party, the political success of neo-liberalism and how the left c...