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Talia Lavin is the author of Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.

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April 20, 2025

Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult

The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin.

May 17, 2021

The U.S. Military Has a White Supremacy Problem

What is the Biden administration going to do about it?

January 6, 2021

The Violent Crescendo of the MAGA Conspiracies

Trump’s cultists truly believed the 2020 election would be overturned. With those hopes dashed, the putsch is on.

October 14, 2020

My Life as an Anti-Fascist Catfisher

Or how I found a violent white supremacist’s Achilles’ heel: online dating

September 29, 2020

QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic

How the ancient, antisemitic nocturnal ritual fantasy expresses itself through the ages—and explains the right’s fascination with fringe conspiracy theories

February 13, 2020

To Dream of a Jewish President

What would it mean for Bernie Sanders, America’s most famous Jewish politician, to become its commander in chief?