Feb 28, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
The political spectrum is often a model that puts political ideologies on a scale of left to right – hence why we hear the term ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’. The terms date back to 1789 and the French Revolution, when radicals sat on the left side of the...
Aug 29, 2017 | Politics & Society
Do violent extremists have common characteristics and backgrounds? Can we predict who among them will become violent? Patrick James is the project manager for Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) at the University of Maryland. The PIRUS...
Aug 22, 2017 | Politics & Society
Does Donald Trump use Nazi-style rhetoric? David Livingstone-Smith argues that Trump’s rhetorical style is very similar to the style employed by the Nazis, and analyzed in “The Psychology of Propaganda,” a 1941 paper by R. Money-Kyrle. Livingstone-Smith says speeches...