Extremism

AN INTRODUCTION TO EXREMISM: Explore how extremist ideologies grow and escalate—with fascinating case studies, from the ancient Romans to the American alt-right. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, J. M. Berger offers a nuanced introduction to the extremist movements threatening to destabilize civil societies around the globe. He explains what extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. Berger shows that although t