Extremism

Extremism means, literally, "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense, to refer to an ideology that is considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of society. It can also be used in an economic context. ...more

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Them: Adventures with Extremists
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Educated
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About
Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
Mark M. Bello
Sarin in Dearborn? Are you shitting me? Jack pounded his desk; his morning coffee spilled all over the burglary file he had been studying.
Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

Bertrand Russell
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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