Jul 26, 2020
This episode, we’re going to take a closer look at terrorism trends and far-right extremists in America. We’ll see how oftentimes right-wing violence works inside the seams of American security and law enforcement discourse, challenging our definition of terrorism.
We’ll also discuss America’s wars abroad, and how many veterans have brought the war home, as it were.
Then we’ll visit
Charlottesville, Virginia, where we’ll tour a few Confederate
monuments — monuments that are playing host to a new generation of
vigilantes.
Guests this episode include:
- Erin
Miller, program manager for the
Global Terrorism Database at the University of Maryland’s
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to
Terrorism; that conversation begins at the 1:52
mark;
- Kathleen
Belew, Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Chicago (at the 9:33 mark);
- Jalane Schmidt, University of Virginia professor and local public historian in Charlottesville, Virginia (at the 38:04 mark). Find her work in a special feature from WTJU's 91.1 FM entitled, "Marked by these Monuments."