Now Streaming: “Love Jihad” on Netflix
Until now, Netflix was a tech company that did not have to address issues related to extremism on its platform. That changed this week with a police case filed against…
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Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy
In evaluating radical-right grand conspiracy theories, I confess to originally qualifying as an industrial chemist and declare my position as a skeptic in the tradition of the ‘father of chemistry’,…
How COVID and Syria Conspiracy Theories Introduce Fascism to the Left Part 3: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum
Part 1 of this series outlined the key concepts and context surrounding red-brownism and looked at some examples of its right-leaning incantations. Part 2 dove into the chaotic world of…
Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Pseudoconservatism and QAnon
In his latest piece on Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality, CARR Doctoral Fellow, Andrew Woods, unpacks Adorno’s definition of pseudoconservatism and determines whether we can use this concept to understand those who follow…
QAnon has gone from fringe conspiracy to full-blown cult
On 12 August, Donald Trump endorsed a congressional candidate from Georgia, the victor in a Republican primary runoff held the previous day. Like an alarmingly increasing number of congressional hopefuls…
Alternative epistemologies of the radical right: how grand narratives and the quest for truth offer recognition and a sense of belonging
In early 2019, during ethnographic fieldwork on radical right movements in Australia, I attended a far-right rally against allegedly “African gang crimes” in Melbourne. I spoke to a young man…
I Predict a Riot: An Analysis of White Supremacist Propaganda in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder
The murder of George Floyd has sparked increasingly violent protests across the United States in an outpouring of fury and frustration, and an eruption of long simmering racial tensions. An…
COVID-19 has exposed the odd conspiracy links between left and right
The COVID-19 conspiratorial cesspool is populated by both right-wing extremists and parts of the liberal left that views itself as woke, progressive and definitely anti-racist. In his recent article on openDemocracy,…
‘The Plan’: Analysing the QAnon conspiracy theory on 8kun
The QAnon conspiracy theory is part of a larger esoteric belief system known as the ‘Great Awakening’. The enclosed map reveals the depth and breadth of this pseudo-religious belief system.…
Off the Hook: How the HIJACKED LABOUR Conspiracy Theory Defends the Radical Right
On December 7th 2019, Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of The Sun, published an editorial that promoted the conspiracy theories of the HIJACKED LABOUR (HL) project. Dunn praised the former…