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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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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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Sanders had boned up on socialism during his freshman year at Brooklyn College.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Voters expressed frustration with political extremism in interviews with the Star-Telegram.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Feb. 2026
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Yet his passion became a rare species of idealistic extremism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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The persistence of legality masks the erosion of liberalism.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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The present world order is characterized by liberalism, democracy, and capitalism, not because this is good, right, or better; but because the most powerful nation in the world since 1945 has been a liberal democratic capitalist country.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 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 15 Feb. 2026.
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