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Recent Examples of radicalism
OneTaste, by centering women’s pleasure, possessed a sheen of radicalism at a moment when feminism and misogyny seemed to go hand in hand.
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Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Fear is the only thing keeping campus radicalism afloat.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
Shiite Iran feared the regional ascendance of Sunni radicalism in the form of the puritanical Taliban, an ambitious al-Qaeda, and other militant factions, as well as further instability on its eastern border—Iran was then, and remains now, home to many Afghan refugees.
—Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Leave Burke aside for the moment, save to observe that Sullivan’s approach in invoking him was novel at a time when even like-minded activists preferred radicalism.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 29 June 2025
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Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Fear is the only thing keeping campus radicalism afloat.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
Shiite Iran feared the regional ascendance of Sunni radicalism in the form of the puritanical Taliban, an ambitious al-Qaeda, and other militant factions, as well as further instability on its eastern border—Iran was then, and remains now, home to many Afghan refugees.
—Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Leave Burke aside for the moment, save to observe that Sullivan’s approach in invoking him was novel at a time when even like-minded activists preferred radicalism.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 29 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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Her early essays, written through a Marxian lens, proclaimed revolutionary socialism as justice’s true path.—
Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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As for socialism, the factories of the Eastern Bloc gobbled up resources, using two to three times as much steel as capitalist factories for every dollar of output produced.—
Matthew Mitchell,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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And extremism, in all forms, is a lie.—
Billy Ray,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
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Newall says concern about political extremism and polarization has jumped by about 15 percentage points since May.—
Debbie Elliott,
NPR,
27 Sep. 2025
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The book is a policy handbook meant to address the realities of political life following the turmoil of the French Revolution, presenting a Christian alternative to both the authoritarian secular liberalism and counterrevolutionary movements of the day.—
Indianapolis Star,
IndyStar,
3 Oct. 2025
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Thoughtful provocations like his help keep liberalism from complacency.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Sep. 2025
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This irrationality, which is especially difficult to model, often boils down to computational constraints.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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