Jon Ronson’s Them was published just months before the world changed on September 11 2001. Its portrait of conspiracy theorists and extremists was eerily prescient.
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This week, it will be 30 years since the Oklahoma bombing. Now, it’s back on the cultural agenda, as the right-wing extremism that drove McVeigh is on the rise.
Distrust of government blended with strains of Christian fundamentalism can produce a violent form of Christian nationalism, a scholar explains.
The fusing of Christian nationalism and violent extremism on display during the attack on the US Capitol can be traced, in part, to two incidents in the early 1990s.
The radical right has a keen sense of its own history, and the violence of the 1990s is still fresh in its memory.
Race may have played a role in the muted federal response to the standoff at Malheur Wildlife Refuge, but it goes deeper than that.
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