Aniko Bodroghkozy is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on her new book, Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to Unite the Right (University of Virginia Press, 2023). JF: What led you to...
extremism
Doug Mastriano’s connection with Gab
What is Gab? It is a right-wing platform used by right-wing extremists. Consider: The shooter in the October 2018 shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue used Gab to announce his murder of 11 people. In 2020, Gab hosted the accounts of...
Who is ISIS-K?
Like most Americans, I had never heard of ISIS-K before it claimed responsibility for yesterday’s attack at the Kabul airport. Amira Jadoon of West Point and Andrew Mines of George Washington University gets us up to speed in their recent...
Kazin: America Was Built on Extremism
William Lloyd Garrison. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ida Wells Barnett. W.E.B. DuBois. Students for a Democratic Society. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Barry Goldwater. William F. Buckley. Phyllis Schafly They were all extremists. The names above associated with the Left brought much...
John Cleese Explains Extremism
And does it very well: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4] HT: Russ Reeves