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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Daniel Lombroso documents a groundswell of racist populism and tracks the sources of violence
Description: Daniel Lombroso is a director and journalist (http://www.daniellombroso.com/). His debut feature film, White Noise (https://www.theatlantic.com/white-noise-movie/), based on his four years of reporting inside the alt-right, premiered last year and was met with high praise from film critics. The film has also garnered a large academic audience: scholars of communication, sociology and political science especially regard it as a singular first-hand account of the shape and scale of the current networked nature of white nationalism.
In this interview we talk about avoiding the simplistic “hot take” so that we can pose more critical questions abou...