The Vortex of All Principles: Gender and the Far Right, ft. Eviane Leidig Eviane Leidig joins the pod to talk about her recent work and update us on the Women of the Far Right

New episode featuring Eviane Leidig, PhD, about gender and the far right

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Whiteness and Patriarchy on Alt-Tech Platforms, ft/ Jasmeet Bahia We chat about Dr. Bahia's dissertation work on Parler, and how to conceptualize the ways people react to and build communities around changes in social norms.

New episode with Dr. Jasmeet Bahia on her work delving into the Parler social media platform as well as grad students' experiences of racism and sexism in the academy.

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Male supremacy, Far-Right Virility and AI, ft/ Greta Jasser Sitting down with Dr. Greta Jasser to discuss the far right in Germany, alt-tech platforms, and the mainstreaming of the "Looksmaxxing" community in recent weeks

New episode on the manosphere and German far right w/ Greta Jasser

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Right-Wing Populism Is Politicising Public Health | Alusta! | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö How does right-wing populism challenge expert knowledge, international health institutions, and the very foundations of evidence-based policymaking? And how can right-wing populists present themselves...

Alusta made this small piece based on the interview, thank you @franetwork.bsky.social and Lynda! This will later be published in Finnish too. blogs.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...

Transnational Opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, ft. Lynda Gilby This interview discusses the "anti-gender" opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, featuring a leading expert on transnational conservative movements

New episode on the transnational "anti-gender" movement and its struggle against sexual and reproductive health and rights

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Transnational Opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, ft. Lynda Gilby This interview discusses the "anti-gender" opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, featuring a leading expert on transnational conservative movements

New episode on the transnational "anti-gender" movement and its struggle against sexual and reproductive health and rights

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Understanding the Brothers of Italy, ft. Valerio Alfonso Bruno This podcast offers keen analysis of the party structure, strategy, and individuation of the Fratelli d'Italia, featuring expert Dr. Bruno.

New podcast episode with FRAN member Valerio Alfonso Bruno, PhD, analyzing the Brothers of Italy and their "political government"

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White Nationalism and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Contemporary Historiography, ft/ Curtis Dozier Prof Cutis Dozier discusses his latest book, The White Pedestal on the way that white nationalists use Greco-Roman history for their own purposes, and how this effort is symptomatic of larger problems...

New episode is up

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"Rules for Reactionaries": Prof Lee Bebout on the Rhetoric of the Right Lee Bebout speaks with RR about his book Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice about countering rhetorical strategies, behavioral patterns, and logical problems p...

New podcast episode with Professor Lee Bebout on how to engage with right-wing talking points

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Right Rising Episode 63: From Skinheads to Foreign Fighters: Lessons on the Czech Far Right with Miroslav Mareš FRAN in collaboration with 2Act4 brings you the insights of Professor Mareš on the far right in the Czech Republic, the rise of accelerationism and foreign fighters, and the impacts of digitization.

New podcast episode in collaboration with 2Act4 with Professor Miroslav Mareš exploring the spread of transnational foreign fighters and the impacts of the digitization of the far right in the Czech Republic.

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Trump's Brazil Tariffs in Historical Context w/ Prof. Vinicius Bivar This episode covers the economic history of Brazil's relationship with the United States, as well as developmentalist economics in light of Trump's recent, punitive tariffs against Brazil.

New podcast episode with Vinicius Bivar, PhD, exploring the political, economic, and historical context of Trump's tariffs against Brazil. Enjoy!

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DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE POLITICHE POLIDEMOS - CENTRO PER LO STUDIO DELLA DEMOCRAZIA E DEI MUTAMENTI POLITICI COLLAPSE: THE FALL OF ROME VIEWED FROM THE RIGHT Alexander Reid Ross Portland State University Far-Right Analysis Network (FRAN) Dr. Alexander Reid Ross's expertise focuses mainly on white nationalist groups and their relation to the international fascist movement He has done extensive research on the development of fascist ideology and the growth of the fascist movement since 2014. International Seminar Lunedì 30 giugno 2025 Aula G.041, ore 16.30 Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milano POLIDEMOS le dei mutamenti politici a derocraza UNIVERSITAS CORDIS 153t MEDIOLANY UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA del Sacro Cuore

If you're in Milan next week, we hope you'll join us for this International Seminar at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore developed by Polidemos and featuring FRAN executive committee member @areidross.bsky.social on the discursive construction of the "fall of Rome" by the US far right.

Thanks for the chat.

The "Pro-Family" Movement: The Roots of the New Christian Right This discussion covers the rise of the "pro-family movement" through the linking of "single issues" into an illiberal political movement with a long-range determination to restore a mythical past of ...

New podcast episode on the roots of the modern "pro-family movement" and anti-abortion extremists like the alleged Minnesota assassin.

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Trump's Carnival: Far-Right Social Media and Symbolic Disorder, ft. Bharath Ganesh This episode delves into a deeply philosophical analysis of far-right social media and the insurrectionary destabilization of symbolic hierarchies

New podcast episode featuring Bharath Ganesh of the University of Amsterdam on his work mapping disinformation and how it pertains to Trump's usage of the carnivalesque.

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amid the analyses of the far right rising, it's nice to have a story about the far right losing. this one adds some interesting, if unsettling, insight into how it happened, and why "claim no easy victories" remains a useful precept.

New blog post from Roland Clark (University of Liverpool) highlights lessons that can be learned from Romania's recent, crucial victory against the populist far right.

www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?p=655

Teen suspect stabs three in targeted school attack in Pirkkala A 16-year-old student stabbed three female classmates at a school in Pirkkala, Finland. All victims survived. Police say the suspect may have planned the attack for months and targeted girls deliberat...

Finnish teen who stabbed three girls at his school says that he used ChatGPT to prepare the attack ... ht @vorkoz.bsky.social

www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl...

Great to see part two of the @franetwork.bsky.social pod now up!

A rich discussion on different research methodologies 🔬 when studying the far right, extremist language online and counter-extremism interventions.

Check out part two below 👏👍👇

The Far Right, Technology, and State Intervention, pt. 2, ft/ William Allchorn In this wide-ranging discussion, Prof Allchorn elaborates on his work on the far-right's engagement in hybrid warfare, counter-messaging efforts, and the "crisis of social democracy."

Part 2 of the episode on research methodologies and counter-extremism with @willallchorn.bsky.social

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The Far Right, Technology, and State Intervention, pt. 1, ft/ William Allchorn In this wide-ranging discussion, Prof Allchorn elaborates on his work on the far-right's engagement in hybrid warfare, counter-messaging efforts, and the "crisis of social democracy."

New episode with @willallchorn.bsky.social on technology and the far right, as well as counter-messaging using different media

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CALL FOR PAPERS!!!!

FRAN is launching a new peer-reviewed research series for studies on the New Right. Check out the link below, and feel free to send in your abstracts if you have relevant research.

www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?page_id=648

Had a lovely chat about hard men, hard times, and the funny little manosphere guys who’ve taken over the US govt — with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Alexander Reid Ross from @franetwork.bsky.social — check it out below!

@burscott.bsky.social

The New Hard Right: Linguistic Anthropology and Far-Right Gender Trouble with Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett Drs Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett join the pod to discuss gender and the far right through the lens of linguistic anthropology. We discuss the "moral flavor" of hardness apropos their recent, in-depth...

New podcast episode is out with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Scott Burnett

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I got to chat with FRAN fellow Jason Luger about his work analyzing the interweaving of far-right online/irl worlds in everyday spaces from gyms and boozy flotillas in North Carolina to graffiti wars in eastern Germany. Enjoy!

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Geographic Analysis of the Far Right, ft. Jason Luger Dr. Jason Luger is a Human Geographer and a member of the Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group at Northumbria. His research focuses on the cultures, politics, contestations, and textures of ...

New episode of Right Rising is up featuring geographer Jason Luger.

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Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online Online harassment has become an almost ubiquitous, though often institutionally unacknowledged, reality for academics globally, whether they study the online milieu or use digital media to publicise t...

Very pleased to share my new article exploring how institutional disregard for researcher safety online produces structural failures of care. Early view, open access here 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’ Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.

"This is an international fight. It’s more valuable to work in an international context. There’s not an atmosphere of fear."

www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...

Texas Prosecutors Will No Longer Pursue Death Penalty in El Paso Shooting The gunman, who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019, was previously sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms after pleading guilty to federal hate crimes.

Texas prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty against the gunman who killed 23 people in a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart six years ago, the local district attorney announced on Tuesday.