White nationalism in the U.S. is becoming more visible and more deadly, from marchers in Charlottesville to a gunman at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Adam Serwer in The Atlantic on the American roots of this movement. He writes that what is judged extremist today was once the consensus of a powerful cadre of the American elite.…
Kevin Roose on the mass murders in Christchurch, New Zealand. People used to conceive of “online extremism” as distinct from the extremism that took form in the physical world. If anything, the racism and bigotry on internet message boards felt a little less dangerous than the prospect of Ku Klux Klan marches or skinhead rallies.Now,…