Get some popcorn 🍿: the AfD is heading for another leadership crisis
May 162022
Apr 302022
Food for thought
Apr 272022
Four years ago, the Radical Right Research Bot started its life as a fun (?) little side project. To make Twitter slightly less dumb, the bot tweets about the many, many titles in the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe. Some say that you cannot teach an old bot new tricks,…
Apr 162022
There, nailed it for you.
Apr 142022
I get a lot of academic spam from predatory journals & fake conferences. Most of it never makes it past the filters, but this machine-written chunk of nonsense will always have a special place in my ❤️. Probability! should definitively become the standard way of greeting academic elders.
Apr 132022
The year is 2022. For the third time, a Le Pen is proceeding to the run-off for the French presidency. And unlike 2002 (when her father stood) and 2017, Marine Le Pen has a chance to win this time. Without doubt, a Le Pen presidency would upend French, European, and even global politics. This is…
Apr 102022
Apr 082022
I have updated the bibliography with 80 fresh titles. If you can spare two minutes, watch the video to see what is new. https://youtu.be/-rYM1lT-t30
Mar 312022
The Radical Right bibliography has been updated. As of April 2021, it lists more than a thousand titles on radical right parties and their supporters. Click here to see what’s new.
Mar 302022
For better (seriously?) or worse (you betcha!), politics and religion are intimately intertwined. While everyone and their grandfather (and especially their grandfather) gets worked up about immigration from Muslim-majority countries, the more relevant development in much of Europe is secularisation. Secularisation as a process has many facets (e.g. a decline of religious membership, practice, and…