radicalization

It’s an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks with blogger Ettingermentum of the “Ettingermentum Newsletter” on SubStack, to discuss Kamala Harris’s campaign now that she’s selected Tim Walz as her running mate. Then, she speaks with Jesselyn Cook, writer at NBCNews and HuffPost and 2025 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, to discuss her recent book The Quiet Damage: […]
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 project of de-radicalizing white nationalists and far-right […]
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.’ From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has […]
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.” On today’s show: Brian Mier reports on fires in the Amazon, Bolsonaro’s role. Author Dale Beran (@DaleBeran) joins Sam to discuss his new book, “It Came From Something Awful: […]
Joining Michael Brooks on today’s program is Kelly Weill from the Daily Beast to discuss her latest deep dive into the alt-right, “How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the Far-Right.” While YouTube’s algorithm can be a great tool to learn how to hang shelves or paint a wall properly, it can also radicalize gamer […]
Yochai Benkler (@YBenkler), Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, joins us to discuss his new book, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. On today’s show: Trump thanks WW2 veterans, says “you look so comfortable” under rain shelter. Macron denounces nationalism as “a betrayal of patriotism” in rebuke to Trump at […]