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Review: Making Sense of the Alt-Right by George Hawley
H-Net has published my review of political scientist George Hawley’s book Making Sense of the Alt-Right. On the plus side, the book is carefully researched and offers a good account of the alt-right’s development, hostility to ...
Fascism Today Conversation Part 1: Interview with author Shane Burley
In this post I interview Shane Burley about his new book, Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, to which I was honored to write the foreword. Publisher AK Press describes the book ...
The Alt-Right: History, Ideology, and the Future of a Fascist Movement (podcast)
Eric Draitser interviewed me for an episode of his Stop Imperialism podcast series on Patreon. The full podcast (almost two hours) is available to Patreon subscribers, while the first half is available for free. Here’s Eric’s ...
Fascist anti-capitalism?
Henry Ford, industrialist and antisemite. Jason Wilson of The Guardian has a good article about the role of socialism and anti-capitalism in fascist ideology. I am quoted along with antifascist authors Alexander Reid Ross and Shane ...
An Alt Right Update – Six Months After “Ctrl-Alt-Delete”
“An Alt Right Update,” published by Political Research Associates, is my attempt to summarize how the Alt Right’s political situation has changed since Donald Trump took office on January 20th, when the report “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” first appeared. ...
How the alt-right is reshaping patriarchal politics
I have a new opinion piece in The Guardian under the title “The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of color.” The article’s main focus is the contrast between the alt-right’s version of ...
Militant Tactics in Anti-Fascist Organizing–Interview Transcript
“I think some folks, many folks… try to divide the concept of a mass response with a militant response. That it’s only possible to do one or the other. I think we really want to challenge ...
How the Alt Right builds on earlier far right upsurges: teleSUR article
I have an opinion piece on teleSUR about “How the Alt Right Builds on Earlier Far-Right Upsurges.” A lot of my work over the past couple of years has been based on a distinction between the ...
Against the Grain interview: The Origins and Politics of the Alt-Right
The Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain recently broadcast an interview with me about the Alt Right. Here’s their description: “Until the last year or two, most people had never heard of the alt-right. But the lead ...
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: new report on the alternative right
A new in-depth report on the alt-right, by me, is now available on the Political Research Associates website, under the title “Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The origins and ideology of the Alternative Right.” This same report will also soon ...
It’s Going Down podcast: Matthew Lyons on the Insurgent Far Right, Trump, and #DisruptJ20
I was interviewed about the far right and the Trump administration for a podcast on the It’s Going Down website. The podcast opens with a long rap piece and a general introduction by the host. The ...
Alt-right: more misogynistic than many neonazis
One of the major problems with the campaign to replace the term “alt-right” with “white supremacist” is that it tends to obscure other important dimensions of alt-right politics. The alt-right’s misogyny merits special attention, for a couple ...