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Recent Examples of radicalism
The credits cite as inspiration Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, a tale concerned with the entropy of 1960s radicalism.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
And after Vance this week criticized The Nation for publishing a critical column about Kirk, which partially misquoted him, its publisher Bhaskar Sunkara underscored that the magazine did not take money from the two foundations that the vice president has accused of funding radicalism.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Fear is the only thing keeping campus radicalism afloat.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
But the country has no culture of radicalism to match the chaos of those neighbors.
—Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
And after Vance this week criticized The Nation for publishing a critical column about Kirk, which partially misquoted him, its publisher Bhaskar Sunkara underscored that the magazine did not take money from the two foundations that the vice president has accused of funding radicalism.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Fear is the only thing keeping campus radicalism afloat.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
But the country has no culture of radicalism to match the chaos of those neighbors.
—Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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Support for socialism and for figures like Mamdani primarily comes from young people who feel priced out of the American dream—owning a home, securing a stable job, and starting a family.—
Neetu Arnold,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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Here in the United States over the past 70 years, the logic of socialism has been implemented in the form of solutions aimed at addressing our social problems, at the cost to taxpayers of trillions of dollars.—
William Z. Fox,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Jan. 2026
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He was convicted three times and received a sentence of 19 years for extremism.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
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Rejecting extremism, Street declared that Hamas should be condemned, not celebrated.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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The 1984 speech that so moved Baldwin remains one of the greatest articulations of American liberalism ever made.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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But when many people within liberal societies do not feel that the system is working, when the practical case for liberalism comes into question, secular liberals don’t have much else to go on.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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In such conditions, apparent irrationality can invite probing, hedging or reciprocal escalation.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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Such irrationality proofs have been rare — and at times, according to longtime Quanta contributor Erica Klarreich, dramatic.—
Jordana Cepelewicz,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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