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Why the Far Right Seeks Islamist Allies — with Moustafa Ayad, Rasha Al Aqeedi and Lydia Wilson

Why the Far Right Seeks Islamist Allies — with Moustafa Ayad, Rasha Al Aqeedi and Lydia Wilson

Extremism expert Moustafa Ayad joins New Lines magazine’s Lydia Wilson and Rasha Al Aqeedi to talk about how, in the eyes of the far right, Islamists went from enemies to allies in a war against secular modernity. But how long can such an alliance hold?

Heidegger and the Far Right — with Richard Wolin

Heidegger and the Far Right — with Richard Wolin

Martin Heidegger was one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers. He was also a Nazi. Intellectual historian Richard Wolin joins New Lines magazine’s Danny Postel to break down his influence on the post-war New Right, whose ideas are inspiring far-right populists from Russia to Tunisia.

I Spent 25 Years Monitoring Far-Right Extremists for the U.S. Government — No One Listened

I Spent 25 Years Monitoring Far-Right Extremists for the U.S. Government — No One Listened

No one on the right wanted to hear that the U.S. threat environment was shifting from homegrown Muslim extremists aligned with al Qaeda to violent, right-wing extremists. As is customary with inconvenient intelligence, my work was politicized, and my team was dissolved.

The Balkan Roots of the Far Right’s “Great Replacement” Theory

The Balkan Roots of the Far Right’s “Great Replacement” Theory

The turn toward paranoid identity politics and demographic fetishism among ostensibly center-right parties on both sides of the Atlantic readily comports to the ideological discourses developed by Serb nationalists during the 1980s and 1990s.