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Recent Examples of radicalism
But that distinction would have made little sense to seventeenth-century women, whose religious radicalism led them to make vehement political critiques of their own society.
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Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
The challenge of Islamic terrorism in America is that, just like the homegrown terrorism of white supremacists, the radicalism is often diffuse.
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Juliette Kayyem,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2026
Warnings about the radicalism of Jay Jones and Spanberger never stuck.
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Ray Nothstine,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
Fortunately, Kaplan quickly dispenses with this generic figure of resistance and dives into what made Decca’s radicalism so singular.
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Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
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Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
The challenge of Islamic terrorism in America is that, just like the homegrown terrorism of white supremacists, the radicalism is often diffuse.
—
Juliette Kayyem,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2026
Warnings about the radicalism of Jay Jones and Spanberger never stuck.
—
Ray Nothstine,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
Fortunately, Kaplan quickly dispenses with this generic figure of resistance and dives into what made Decca’s radicalism so singular.
—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Sunday brushed off a group of moderate Democrats‘ new warning against socialism, warning his wing of the party has already proved its appeal with voters after a slate of socialist candidates scored major primary victories in New York.
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Does the Democratic Party actually need to embrace the moniker of socialism, lean into it?
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The new searchable databases work against those calls, encouraging Germans to look more closely at their own families’ association with Nazism and prompting fresh reflections on how ordinary citizens came to normalize extremism.
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Its wider Sahel region is the world’s deadliest area for extremism.
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The Semiquincentennial Commission was conjured into being by Congress back in 2016, during that long-ago summer when the Democratic Party was convening in Philadelphia and the succession of one form of representational liberalism to another seemed pretty well secure.
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Those of us who care about keeping liberalism alive need Europeans to start defending it against all of its enemies—in Moscow, Beijing, and Washington.
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Moreover, experts should introduce deliberate irrationality to disrupt the model’s predictive path.
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Viral memes and TikTok trends play up women’s purportedly excessive spike in libido during ovulation and dramatic irrationality during menstruation and the luteal phase (the 14 days or so between ovulation and menstruation).
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If the assassination made the President a Christlike figure, his forbearance in the face of a wife’s unreasonableness provides him with an extra measure of purity.
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If the assassination made the President a Christlike figure, his forbearance in the face of a wife’s unreasonableness provides him with an extra measure of purity.
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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