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Catalog of Extremist, Far Right, Cult, and Conspiracy Theorists Research Materials
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Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine / @transform6789.bsky.social

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SPLC www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
How a Mainstream Racist Group Revived the Terroristic Tome 'Siege'
A foundation that sought to mainstream racist pseudoscience and pro-segregationist viewpoints established a publishing house that produced and promoted literature encouraging neo-Nazi terrorism,
www.splcenter.org
June 7, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill

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NewYorker - Don’t Believe What They’re Telling You About Misinformation www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Don’t Believe What They’re Telling You About Misinformation
People may fervently espouse symbolic beliefs, cognitive scientists say, but they don’t treat them the same as factual beliefs. It’s worth keeping track of the difference.
www.newyorker.com
June 7, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’ Movement and World War II by Glen Jeansonne

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www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
The Great Debate | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, Americans were se...
www.nationalww2museum.org
April 29, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

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www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
We Choose Our Cults Every Day
"Cultish," a new book by the linguist Amanda Montell, reveals how insidery language informs the communities of modern life.
www.theatlantic.com
April 28, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy by Frederick Clarkson

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NPR Fresh Air www.npr.org/2005/05/18/4...
Church and State: 'Eternal Hostility'
Author Frederick Clarkson wrote the book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy And Democracy, on the growing religious movement to influence government. Clarkson has written articles on th...
www.npr.org
March 30, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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The Age of Insurrection by David Neiwert: The Radical Right’s Assault On American Democracy

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March 30, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley

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Slate slate.com/technology/2...

Ken Burns kenburns.com/films/huey-l...
The Late ’30s Deplatforming of Father Coughlin
Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.
slate.com
March 27, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest To Live Forever by David M. Friedman

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PBS www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Fallen Hero | American Experience | PBS
Controversial views dissolve Lindbergh's hero status.
www.pbs.org
March 27, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Right by Max Wallace

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Smithsonian www.si.edu/object/ameri...
The American axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the rise of
www.si.edu
March 27, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World by Elle Hardy

Guardian (2022) www.theguardian.com/world/2022/a...

WorldCat search.worldcat.org/en/title/124...
Brand or church? Hillsong is facing a day of reckoning
Several years of scandals and a culture of secrecy has led to calls for an overhaul of the global Pentecostal megachurch
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism by Stephen Dorril

The Guardian (1935) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016...

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Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts no longer compulsory: archive, 19 Jan 1935
Manchester Guardian, 19 January 1935: The leader of the British Union of Fascists may have found that the uniform is not, after all, an attraction
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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Birth of a New Earth: the Radical Politics of Environmentalism by Adrian Parr

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University of Oregon around.uoregon.edu/content/adri...
Adrian Parr: An Explorer by Design
Adrian Parr will help the UO flex its imagination in the pursuit of environmental and social justice
around.uoregon.edu
January 2, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek

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Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2023/m...
Birchers review: how the Republican far right gave us Trump and DeSantis
Matthew Dallek’s fast-paced and well-researched history shows how the John Birch Society rose, raved and never went away
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2023 at 10:21 AM
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Wrapped In the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right by Claire Conner

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Salon www.salon.com/2013/07/15/m...
My parents were right-wing extremists
Mom and dad were John Birchers who idolized George Wallace. And then I found a hero in Martin Luther King Jr.
www.salon.com
December 27, 2023 at 10:17 AM
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Sisters In Hate by Seyward Darby

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Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2020/d...
Sisters in Hate review: tough but vital read on the rise of racist America
After black women helped push Trump from office, Seyward Darby’s work on white extremists is more resonant than ever
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2023 at 9:05 AM
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Bloody Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s Far Right by Daniel Trilling

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Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2012/o...
Bloody Nasty People by Daniel Trilling – review
The BNP and the EDL are still dangerous. By David Edgar
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2023 at 11:22 PM
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Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship edited by Marlene LaRuelle

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www.illiberalism.org/marlene-laru...
Marlene Laruelle - Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe–Russia Relationshi...
Photo: "ششمین کنفرانس بین‌المللی افق نو با شعار «قدس پایتخت همیشگی فلسطین» شنبه ۲۲ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۷ با حضور اندیشمن...
www.illiberalism.org
November 25, 2023 at 7:18 PM
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Rebranding Fascism: National Anarchism by Spencer Sunshine (2008)

Online Article Libcom. Org - files.libcom.org/files/Rebran...
files.libcom.org
November 25, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians and the Hi-Jacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz

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University of Toronto Rotman School of Management video - youtu.be/4OV30bC5vE0?...
Antisocial: Andrew Marantz
Speaker: Andrew Marantz, Staff Writer, "The New Yorker" magazine; AuthorIn Conversation With: Nicola Lacetera, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, D...
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November 23, 2023 at 1:33 PM
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Bring the War Home: the White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew

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University of Chicago video lecture youtu.be/xTB-1HQdifY?...
Virtual Harper Lecture: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, featuring Kathleen Belew
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary AmericaThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves...
youtu.be
November 23, 2023 at 1:24 PM
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2018 book review of books on the Alt-Right - Inside Higher Ed

www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/0...
A review of books analyzing the alt-right and new authoritarian and nativist movements (essay)
Scott McLemee reviews a number of recent and forthcoming titles analyzing not just the alt-right but also the nearly global wave of new authoritarian and nativist movements.
www.insidehighered.com
November 23, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

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My Childhood in a Cult www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
My Childhood in a Cult
On our isolated commune, we kids were taught that the world was about to end. But my world ended when I was told to leave.
www.newyorker.com
November 19, 2023 at 7:02 AM
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Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story by Joanna Harcourt-Smith

WorldCat search.worldcat.org/title/Trippi...

archives.nypl.org/mss/19086
archives.nypl.org -- Joanna Harcourt-Smith papers related to Timothy Leary
archives.nypl.org
November 19, 2023 at 6:47 AM
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My Psychedelic Love Story (film) (2020) directed by Errol Morris

IMDB www.imdb.com/title/tt1286...

www.theguardian.com/film/2020/no...
My Psychedelic Love Story: how Errol Morris captured an unusual romance
The Oscar-winning documentarian discusses his latest film about LSD and a subject who Nixon called ‘the most dangerous man in America’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2023 at 6:41 AM
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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by Nicholas Schou

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www.latimes.com/books/la-et-...
'Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to t...
An OC Weekly writer reveals the dark side of the 1960s drug culture by tracking down members and associates of the Orange County counterculture group, who spoke of it for the first time in decades.
www.latimes.com
November 19, 2023 at 6:34 AM